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convenience of management, and in addition will 

 employ their experience with plants to the great 

 benefit of the design. Such a man would do well 

 to co-operate with an architect where questions 

 of buildings are involved ; and similarly the 

 architect with a faculty for garden design needs 

 some one to assist him in the wide field of horti- 

 culture, for an architect's garden is sometimes 

 an impossible home for plants. 



In the portions relating to the practical work 

 of surveying, levelling and plan drawing I have 

 been guided by experience with pupils. Plan 

 drawing alone will never give enough technique, 

 and I recommend a severe course of geometrical 

 drawing, which, apart from some of its problems 

 being of actual use, affords a splendid drill in the 

 accurate use of instruments. Perspective should 

 also be practised for the sake of being able to 

 express one's ideas in the solid. 



Constant examination of good work is essential. 

 When seeing a garden the student should decide 

 whether or not its disposition is agreeable to him, 

 and the reason for his opinion. There are, for- 

 tunately, plenty of fine gardens as originally 

 planned in England, both public and private, 

 and some of the modern work lacks only age to 

 make it equally good. No opportunity should 

 be lost of seeing such. Next to seeing gardens 

 plans may advantageously be studied, and copied 

 for the sake of realizing dimensions and proper- 



