lid The Englijh Gardner , 
firft, and then rake it exactly: and having proceeded thus 
far, whether you intend your plat for grafs or knots, you 
are to tread it all over alike, and then rake it again, and by 
fo doing your plat will fettle in every place alike,which other- 
wile it will fcarce do, and then you may proceed to the per¬ 
fecting of your intended work 5 and if you make Graft-plats, 
and do not lay Tur£ but fow them, then your beft way is af¬ 
ter you have levelled the ground to fow it pretty thick all 
over, and then to tread it in every place alike, and then rake 
it over, and then fow it a fecond time,treading it, and raking 
it handfomly over again, and in fo doing the grafs will come 
up fo thick and handfomly as the weeds will noteafily get the 
maftery, as fometimes it doth when it is fown too thin 5 yet 
nevertheleft if any Docks or other great weeds come up a- 
mongft your grals, you are to weed them clean.out, and then 
by timely and often cutting your grafs it will grow thick and 
pleafant 5 the truth is, if graft be not cut once in a Fortnight at 
leaf!: in the growing time of the year, it will not be handfom; 
befides its aptneft to feed,and thereby foiling the beauty and 
handfomneft of your walks or border. 
After you have finiftied your borders, knots, or quarters as 
occafion ferves, then you are to make your Walks, firft pitch¬ 
ing a range of Stakes juft in the middle, only about a pole or 
more afonder, after the manner you were taught before, 
and according to the nature of the level , but in cafe your 
Walks are very wide, then you are to have three ranges of 
ftakes for the more exa& laying of your walks,but do not make 
the fall on each fide of your walk too great or (harp, but ra-’ 
ther a fine, almoft undifeernable fall, except your ground be 
very apt to lye wet, fo great a fall is both unhandfom and un- 
eafie for filch as wear high heel’d fhooes3 after you have fla¬ 
ked your Walk,or before,you are to dig and level your walk 
with its own earth or gravel3 but in cafe the earth lie too high 
or be too good, it will be your beft way to carry fome of it 
away for a better ufe, than only to walk on, and in the room 
thereof to bring or lay either Gravel or Chalk, or the like. 
