GARDENING FOR WOMEN 13 



grounded in botany and botanical geography. 

 It is necessary that she should be able to draw, 

 and a knowledge of simple plane geometry and 

 geometrical drawing is essential. She must be 

 able to make a sketch plan showing the proposed 

 alterations with their measurements. In some 

 cases, where the employer is not himself a draughts- 

 man or does not read a ground plan easily, the 

 lady gardener may find it useful to have recourse 

 to a different system for conveying her meaning 

 to him. 



I have seen a rough model made in cardboard 

 to represent the house, and real soil used to surround 

 it, with little twigs placed here and there in 

 imitation of trees or hedges. This is a somewhat 

 childish means of experimenting upon future 

 alterations, but in cases where the owner is un- 

 decided or unable completely to grasp the effect 

 which will be attained by moving soil, or planting 

 trees, the model may be exceedingly useful. The 

 soil can be so easily shifted from side to side with 

 the hands, a tree planted here, a dividing hedge 

 placed there, until the desired efiect is attained. 

 Then, too, it may convey well to the contractor 

 (who possibly undertakes the whole alteration) 

 the exact amount of labour that he will have to 

 expend. 



Another way of conveying ideas for proposed 



