Chap. IV. of Gardening. 



fix Foot, and drive feveral Spikes at Randoni'-feven or eight 

 Foot within the Corner Stakes, which will be of Ufe to di- 

 red the Hollowing away of the Earth round about, without 

 taking it away towards the Edges, which Ihould be prefer- 

 ved for cutting the Banks in the folid Ground j this is ex- 

 prefs'd by the Winding-Line aaaa. Your Earth being 

 cleared out of the Middle, as has been already taiight in the 

 fecond Chapter ; to level aud make eaven the Bottom of the 

 Bowling-green, adjuft the inner Stakes, that their Heads may 

 range exa61:ly, and be of equal Height with thofe of the 

 eight Corner Stakes, as you fee by the Stak-s BCD £FG ^ 

 then meafure downwards upon thefe inner Stakes, the one 

 Foot Height which the Corner Stakes are above theGround^ 

 and add to it, likewife, the Depth or Sinking you would 

 give the Bowling-green i fuppofe two Foot, this makes in 

 all three Foot, which niuft be reckoned downwards upon 

 the Stakes, and all them reduced to this Height, by earth- 

 ing up or clearing away the Ground from the Foot of then% 

 You then drain a Line from one to another, and, by Patterns 

 or Furrows, level all the Bottom of the Bowling-green, ac- 

 cording to the fecond Prafticeof the fecond Chapter. This 

 done, take away all the Stakes, and drive others in the Bot- 

 tom oppofite to the Angles, at eight or ten Foot Diftance, fo 

 as to range, and be of equal Height with the Corner Stakes, 

 Then upon one of the Corner-Stakes, as H, faften a Line 

 level with the Ground, and having taken off one Foot 

 downwards upon the Stake K that anfwers it, tie the other 

 End of the Line faft there, and draining it tight, meafure 

 upon it the fix Foot the Bank fhould have, and let fall a 

 Plum-Line to the Bottom, fetting a Spike exaftly in the 

 Place. Do the fame Work at the Teven other Angles of the 

 Bowling-green, and having thus found and terminated by 

 Spikes the eight Angles at Bottom, ftrain the Line from one 

 to another, and delcribe upon it the fecond Odiogone. As 

 to the Manner of cutting and making the Banks of this 

 Bowling-green, you may have Recourie to what has been 

 already faid in the fourth Practice, and in the Remarks up- 

 on the foregoing Chapter, 



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