2tS ON PLANNING AND FORMING FLOWER BEDS. 



allowed that a just arrangement of height, and combination of 

 the colour, will add much to general beauty of the whole pic- 

 ture ; and this is easily and usually effected in proportion to the 

 taste of fancy which every (even the most xmeducated) gardener 

 possesses in a greater or less degree. 



These beauties, I observe, are displayed because they depend 

 much upon taste and little upon skill : not so however with the 

 formation of beds. Though a point of paramount importance 

 in forming an ornamental flower garden, yet there are but few 

 ordinary gardeners who are capable of planning or cutting out a 

 number of beds with taste or precision. They may, perhaps, 

 form in their minds many a beautiful and elegant design, and 

 yet be quite unable to reduce it to practice, and the reason is 

 this, it cannot be done but upon mathematical principles, which 

 have never yet been placed within their reach, and it is to 

 communicate these principles in a simple and appropriate form, 

 that I beg to offer the following plan to your notice, in which 

 I trust, the most learned of your readers will find nothing to 

 despise, and I am sure that many of your more humble subscrib- 

 ers, will acknowledge much to be acceptable, interesting, and 

 useful. 



The following figures may be drawn for practice on the 

 boarded floor of a room with chalk. 



No. 1. 



No. 1. — Draw A B, and with its length, from each end describe 

 arcs cutting each other in C: join A B. 



No. 2. — Fix a stiff stick in the centre A, slip the loop end of 

 your twine on the stick, and draw the circle at any distance 

 from A, 



