PREPARATION OF THE DESIGN 101 



is most convenient for use at the bottom of the 

 paper. 



The final touches to the plan are the signature 

 of the designer, and the date of its completion, 

 both usually set in the right-hand bottom corner. 

 Some designers enclose the whole in a neatly ruled 

 frame, which gives opportunity for effective 

 corners. 



It is convenient to number all plans, and keep 

 a record of them, for as they accumulate it is 

 easier to look them up by number than by title, 

 and large details can merely -early the nnir-bcr 

 instead of the whole name of the work. 



Sections and small detail sketches of treillage, 

 pergolas, etc., may be set at the side of the plan 

 proper, but nothing must be added or elaborated 

 so as to confuse the main features. 



The designer works on a sheet of tough drawing 

 paper, and when the general scheme has been 

 decided a tracing should be taken off, without 

 details, although their positions may be in- 

 dicated, and submitted to the client. This 

 may in the end save much time, for the least 

 alteration may mean a general shifting and re- 

 arrangement, and it is as well that the lines of 

 the garden should be approved before embarking 

 on what may be wasted labour. A written descrip- 

 tion of the various parts may accompany the 

 sketch plan, with reasons for anything that seems 

 to require them, Simple sketches are a great 



