CHAPTER XIII 



COST 



Points affecting the cost — Labour — Clearing scrub — 

 Drainage — Estimated cost of rocks, sand, etc. — Cost 

 of making artificial bog garden — Cost of plants. 



When undertaking any work, whether it be 

 the laying out of a pleasure-ground, the build- 

 ing of a house, or the making of a rock garden, 

 the question that first arises is the probable 

 cost ; and very rightly so too, for to commence 

 an operation of this kind without having any 

 idea of the expense incurred, is, to put it 

 plainly, the act of a fool. 



With regard to buildings, the estimate 

 is, comparatively speaking, simple, for it 

 merely resolves itself into a mathematical cal- 

 culation, with a well-recognised basis, such as 

 the cost of a cubic yard of masonry or a square 

 of roofing. These are known and acknowledged 



