DESIGN 
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hoped for from a collection of good plans, 
made for other gardens, is that the careful 
study of them will form one’s taste and educate 
it, and so help one in the making of one’s own 
garden. Given a few quiet hours with pencil 
and paper, compasses, a foot-rule, and the 
humble penny and halfpenny (for getting ac- 
curate rounds drawn on paper), the man who 
wishes to lay out his garden will find that, with 
their help and his own ideas (or those culled 
from the aforementioned plans), he is well on 
the road to the desired end. A gardening friend 
will generally advise on the plan when drawn 
out ; and, as the work of laying it out proceeds, 
the plan will be altered here and there, no 
doubt — and sometimes not much of it is left 
by the time all is finished. Still, he must 
start with some kind of design, and must know 
more or less what is required to be grown. 
The drawing should be made to scale, and this 
is easy to manage if quite simple lines are 
adhered to. 
First measure your garden, and divide it 
with an imaginary division marked with a 
stick. Should the space you have at your 
disposal measure 60 yards by 20 yards, and as 
the scale of 1 inch to the yard, giving a 
plan 60 inches by 20 inches, is rather large 
