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Chap. IV. of Gardening. 39
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CHAP. IV.
Of Parterre J and Borders of feverai
Kinds.
THE Name of Parterre has its Original from the D&tm*ty«/
Latin Word Tartiri, to divide ; and according to JSSS?
Ibme, a Parterre denotes a flat and even Surface.
The Gompartiments and Borders of Parterres are taken £|f£o
from Geometrical Figures, as well right-lined, as circular,
mix'd, &c. They take various Defigns into their Compo-
fition, as Branches, Flowers, Palms, Foliage, Hawks-Bills,
Darts, Tendrells, Volutes, Knots, Roots, Clafps, Chaplets,
Beads, Stalks, Cartoozes, Strings, curtailed Leaves, Wolves-
teeth or Trefoils, Plumes, Compartiments, Frets, or Inter-
lacings, Wreaths, and Shells of Grafs, Paths, Borders, &c~
And fometimes to thefe are added the Defigns of Flowers, as
Roles, Pinks, Tulips, and the like.
Formerly they put in the Heads of Greyhounds,
Griffins, and other Beafts, With their Paws and Talons; which
had a very ill Effect, and made Parterres look very heavy
and clouterly.
_l The Defigns we fee now-a-days are quite different; and
'tis pretended, that to have Embroidery look well, it fhould
be light, regular, and not confufed •, which often occafions
the falling into the contrary Fault to what they were in
heretofore ; and, out of a Itudious Endeavour to make
Parterres appear light and free, they make them utterly un-
furnifh'd, and with an Embroidery fb thin and meagre, that
it makes no Figure upon the Ground \ but in four or five
Years time you are obliged to pull it up again, the Edgings
of Box. coming to touch and interfere one with, another. A
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CHAP. IV.
Of Parterre J and Borders of feverai
Kinds.
THE Name of Parterre has its Original from the D&tm*ty«/
Latin Word Tartiri, to divide ; and according to JSSS?
Ibme, a Parterre denotes a flat and even Surface.
The Gompartiments and Borders of Parterres are taken £|f£o
from Geometrical Figures, as well right-lined, as circular,
mix'd, &c. They take various Defigns into their Compo-
fition, as Branches, Flowers, Palms, Foliage, Hawks-Bills,
Darts, Tendrells, Volutes, Knots, Roots, Clafps, Chaplets,
Beads, Stalks, Cartoozes, Strings, curtailed Leaves, Wolves-
teeth or Trefoils, Plumes, Compartiments, Frets, or Inter-
lacings, Wreaths, and Shells of Grafs, Paths, Borders, &c~
And fometimes to thefe are added the Defigns of Flowers, as
Roles, Pinks, Tulips, and the like.
Formerly they put in the Heads of Greyhounds,
Griffins, and other Beafts, With their Paws and Talons; which
had a very ill Effect, and made Parterres look very heavy
and clouterly.
_l The Defigns we fee now-a-days are quite different; and
'tis pretended, that to have Embroidery look well, it fhould
be light, regular, and not confufed •, which often occafions
the falling into the contrary Fault to what they were in
heretofore ; and, out of a Itudious Endeavour to make
Parterres appear light and free, they make them utterly un-
furnifh'd, and with an Embroidery fb thin and meagre, that
it makes no Figure upon the Ground \ but in four or five
Years time you are obliged to pull it up again, the Edgings
of Box. coming to touch and interfere one with, another. A
mffc