PREPARATION OF THE DESIGN 



Surveying Levelling Setting out the Plan Finishing the Plan 

 Estimating Working out the Design. 



SURVEYING 



T is practically impossible 

 to lay out a garden 

 without a properly pre- 

 pared plan. Working by 

 eye may answer for small 

 areas where the whole 

 can be seen at once, but 

 even so a plan is likely 

 to give the best results. 

 The skeleton of the plan consists of the boun- 

 daries ; the house marked in its exact position 

 with its ground plan in sufficient detail to 

 show doors and windows, and the kind of room 

 to which they belong ; the position of all 

 timber and natural features which are to be 

 preserved ; and enough levels if the surface 

 is uneven. If the house is built there will 



