LEVELLING AND LAYING OUT. 



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369. The accompanying diagram represents the centre and a quarter of 



the Dutch or French garden at ^___^ 



Putteridge Bury, the seat of } | [ j j ' 1 \ I h \ \ 



Colonel Sowerby. It would be 

 best formed by drawing the cen- 

 tre and the four semicircles, then 

 drawing the diagonal lines, and, 

 finally, the straight ones. This 

 garden is sunk about IS inches 

 or 2 feet beneath the surround- 

 ing surface, and has a beautiful 

 effect when looked down upon. 

 As it was laid down and is still 

 \inder the management of my 

 brother, Mr. Robert Fish, I hope 

 to furnish the mode of grouping it for the calendar in April or May. 



370. The annexed engraving represents a quarter of the centre of the chief 

 flower-garden at the Duke of Grafton's, 

 at Euston, the other three-fourths being 

 exactly its counterpart. Beginning at 

 the centre, it would be easily trans- 

 ferred to paper by dividing the dotted 

 circle into an octagon, with the four 

 centre sides longer than the four diag- 

 onal ones : the other lines being straight, 

 need no instructions. 



371. In-egular figures and elaborate 

 patterns in box are not so easily managed, 

 although many of them are susceptible 

 of being formed upon certain and easily- 

 ascertained principles. In cases, how- 

 ever, where it is otherwise, and the 

 tracery is capricious and difficult to re- 

 duce to rule, there is no better mode 

 of transference to the ground than by 

 running lines across it in all directions, 

 so that the ground is divided into a 

 series of squares of equal size, corre- 

 sponding to the same squares on the 

 paper reduced to a scale. Holding the 

 paper in one hand and a pointed stick 

 in the other, almost any design may be 

 copied in this manner. Of course, the plan on the paper will be divided into 

 squares in the same manner as the ground. It would also facilitate the 

 transference of all plans, if the chief points of formation were boldly indicated. 



