164 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING 



A landscape survey is next taken to show the 

 general conditions of the trees and shrub planta- 

 tions and the arrangement of the walks and drives, 

 with notes as to the advisability of changing any 

 of these features for the increasing of their effi- 

 ciency. This survey is made by notes and 

 sketches, from which the survey plans are worked 

 out in the drafting-room. These plans show the 

 location and size of the houses, width of the street, 

 the positions of all buildings, the walks, arrange- 

 ment of w^alks, and position, area, and variety of 

 shrubs used in any existing plantations. The 

 plans are usually drawn at a scale of forty feet to 

 the inch, each sheet showing one block of the street, 

 and the information thus presented is adequate for 

 completing the work. 



In the working out of the design the first ques- 

 tion to be studied is that of circulation. The main 

 walks and their relations to the service walk 

 should be carefully considered not only in relation 

 to each individual property, but as regards the 

 street as a whole. The question of the street trees 

 comes next in respect to their general location. 

 Care must be taken to locate them in such a way 

 as to satisfy the individual needs of each separate 

 property, to provide shelter from the sun as well 



