22 OPERATIONS OF GARDENING. PART I. 



CHAPTER IT. 



LAYING OUT OF A GARDEN LAWNS HEDGES HOEING AND 

 DIGGING IRRIGATION DRAINAGE CONSERVATORIES 

 BETEL HOUSES DECORATIONS IMPLEMENTS SHADES 

 LABELS VERMIN WEEDS. 



THE LAYING OUT OF A GARDEN. 



SINCE the manner in which a garden should be laid out will 

 depend much upon the locality where it is situated, and since 

 the disposing of the natural advantages of that locality so as to 

 make them most conducive to variety and ornamental effect, 

 must in a great measure be left to the judgment and taste of 

 the owner, all I purpose at present to do is to give merely a 

 few practical directions which I think generally essential to be 

 attended to. 



The arrangement of a garden will be very much modified in 

 reference to the source on which it depends for its supply of 

 water. If, as in the North- West Provinces it necessarily must 

 be, the garden is irrigated by artificial means, the water must 

 be obtained either from a well or from a tank or a river. 



Where the water is supplied from a well, it is important that 

 the place chosen for the well be, whence the water may have 

 the readiest access to all parts of the garden, and where also it 

 may be easiest screened from view by shrubs and trees planted 

 around it. As native servants, moreover, have continually to 

 be going to the well, both for performing their ablutions there 

 and for drawing water for domestic purposes, if it can be so 

 arranged, there should be a pathway to it made for them 

 exclusively, cut off entirely from the rest of the garden by 

 means of a hedge. This is desirable, not only for the purpose 

 of keeping the garden as much as possible secluded, but also for 

 the safety of its produce. 



The footpaths being raised five or six inches, or more, above 

 the level of the borders, the water from the well is conveyed 



