in Gardening, groves so called from boquete, an Italian word which signifies a little wood. They are compartments in gardens formed by branches of trees disposed either regularly in rows, or wildly and irregularly, according to the fancy of the owner. A boquet is either a plot of ground enclosed with palisadoes of horn-beam, the middle of it being filled with tall trees, as elm or the like, the tops of which make a tuft or plume; or it consists of only high trees, as horse-chestnut, elm, &c. The ground should be kept very smooth and rolled, or else covered with grass, after the manner of green plots. In planting boquets, care should be taken to mix the trees which produce their leaves of different shapes, and various shades of green, and hoary or mealy leaves, so as to afford an agreeable prospect. Boquets are only proper for spacious gardens, and require a great expense to keep them up.

BOSSAGE, in architecture, a term used for any stone that has a projection, and is laid rough in a building, to be afterwards carved into mouldings, capitals, coats of arms, &c. Bossage is also that which is otherwise called rustic-work; and consists of stones which advance beyond the naked or level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings. These are chiefly used in the corners of edifices, and thence called rustic quoins. The cavities or indentures are sometimes round, sometimes chain-framed, or bevelled, sometimes in a diamond form, sometimes enclosed with a cavetto, and sometimes with a listel.