SIZE AND PLAN OF GARDEN 



bors will be glad all the year; if it is done wrong 

 they and you will be equally sorry. Suppose there 

 is a fence, or a line of trees or an arbor near where 

 you plan your garden, and you are careless, it would 

 look like this: 



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THE "CROOKED" WAY 



THE "STRAIGHT" WAY 



So as to be sure that it does not look that way, we 

 will go to work right. Take something around the 

 place to measure from, then get the same measure- 

 ment for both ends of your garden. Drive a stick 

 in at these two points ; they will be sticks A and B. 

 Now decide how wide your garden is to be and 

 measure from these sticks, making lines 3 and 4, and 

 put in two more sticks (never take out a stick for 

 a new place; be sure you have at least four before 

 you start). Now you must be sure that the sticks 

 at corners C and D are just as far apart from right 

 to left as the sticks A and B, and I can tell you 

 that is the hard part, so do not be discouraged. Re- 



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