20 FLOWER GARDENING 



planning of the garden. Much has to be thought 

 out, and thought out means threshed out until 

 there is clean winnowing of the impractical from 

 the practical. 



Preliminaries out of the way, the paper stage of 

 the game passes from memoranda into the definite 

 form of a plan to scale. Blessings on the man 

 who invented cross-ruled paper; with it laying out 

 a garden is child's play, even for the unmathemat- 

 ical mind. This paper comes in sheets, 17x14 

 inches, and is ruled in little squares that run thirty- 

 six to the square inch. The squares may be called 

 any convenient unit from a square foot up, and 

 if one sheet of paper is not large enough two. or 

 more may be pasted together. 



With a steel tape, if you can get hold of one, 

 take measurements of the boundaries of the en- 

 tire home grounds and the base lines of the house 

 and any other buildings. Then get the distance 

 of the house from the boundaries and locate by 

 further measurements all existing roads, paths, 

 trees, shrubs and borders. Having decided on 

 your unit, transfer these measurements to the cross- 

 ruled sheet and you have a plan of the place all 

 ready for laying out the garden by exact scale. 

 This plan would better settle only the location and 

 size of the garden. 



A large plan of the garden in detail should 

 then go on a separate sheet; this to be a working 

 scheme for planting. Here it will sometimes be 

 found very convenient to call every six squares 



