The PraBke Part II 



the Tracing-Staff with a fiqgle Stroke, and confider if very 

 carefully, minding where it takes its Rife, and where it 

 terminates, whether in the Middle, or at two Thirds of the 

 Square i and fo of the other Leaves and Branch-work of 

 the whole Parterre. You may deface, with the Rake, the 

 faults you make at firft, in placing a Leaf wrong, -that is, 

 ■out of its proper Square, or in not giving it the handfome 

 Out-Line required by theDefign. After you have thus tra- 

 ced out the two Sides of the- Parterre with a fingle Stroke, 

 and have given all the Leaves and Ornaments their due 

 Place, you muft then make the double Strokes, and pare 

 and raffle the Leaves, as you fee in the other half of the Par- 

 terre B, which is drawn complete. Fig. i. You are like- 

 wife to reckon in what Square thefe double Strokes are, and 

 to fet off the lelfer Meafuresof them with the Fathom and the 

 Foot, that they may be drawn more exa<a; than they can be 

 at Sight only. You may hollow the Track a little for fear 

 it Ihould be defaced and by Holes made with the Point of 

 the Tracing-Stick, determine the End and Springing of the 

 Xeaves and Branches, for the Eafe of the Planters. 



■O B S E KV AT I O 



The lefs the Squares are, the nearer you will come up to- 

 the Beauty of the Defign, and the more exaft will the 

 Draught be upon the Ground. They are ufually kept to 

 three Foot fquare in fmall Parterres ; and in great ones they 

 fometimes make them four Foot. You need include in thefe 

 Squares, nothing but the Volutes and Twifting Borders at"" 

 the Ends; for as for them upon the Sides, they are fet out 

 by the Range, .meafured with the Fathom, and traced out 

 by the Line. 



THE SECOND PRACTICE. 



The Out-Lines of the Grove Tig. 3- being traced out 

 upon the Ground, and the Corners A B C D determined by 

 Stakes • for fetting out the tAvo W alks, calfd Diagonals, 

 A D and C B, from the angular Stakes A B CD, Fig. 4. 

 ^plant a ftrait Row of Stakes the whole Length each way, 



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