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FAULTS TO AVOID. 
dred feet need be planned for planting, a scale of four feet to the 
inch (j of an inch to the foot) may be used. It is best to have 
the scale fourths, eighths, twelfths, or sixteenths of an inch, as 
these divisions of a foot come on all ordinary measuring-rules. 
There should be a clear margin of at least two inches of paper 
outside the lot lines; the outer inch to paste the paper to the 
board, and the inner inch for a margin, when it becomes neces- 
sary to cut the paper from the board. A duplicate should be 
made of this skeleton map, as first made, to keep safely in the 
house ; and as the plans for planting are matured and carried out 
from the board, or “ field map,” the house map should have such 
work platted upon it, in duplicate. The map which is pasted to 
the board may be materially protected from damage by rain, wet 
grass, or dirt, to which it may be exposed during the planting 
season, by covering it with ordinary transparent tracing linen. 
To facilitate the planning or arrangement of the various things 
to be planted on different parts of the lot, as well as to make the 
plan more easy to work from in planting, the map should be di- 
vided into one-inch squares by ordinary blue lines, and these sub- 
divided into eighth-inch squares by very faint blue lines. Each side 
of these inch squares will then represent four, eight, twelve, or 
sixteen feet, according to the scale chosen. One accustomed to 
the use of a decimal scale, may have the squares made one and 
one-fourth inches on each side, and then subdivided into tenths, 
each one of which will then be an eighth-inch. Paper thus ruled 
for the use of civil-engineers and architects, may be procured at 
most large stationers. These squares, when the distances they 
represent are borne in mind, serve as a substitute for measure- 
ments on the map. Plate I, which is on a scale of 32 feet to one 
inch, (our page being too small to admit any larger scale), illus- 
trates the mode in which a map should be made. It will be seen 
that the intersections of the square lines with the exterior boun- 
daries of the lot are numbered on one side and lettered on 
another, from the same point, marked 0 . This is to facilitate 
measurements and references to the intersections. Before pro- 
ceeding to lay out walks, or to plant from the plan, it will be 
necessary to have the fence measured and marked in the same 
