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Then you have also, if it is not already done, 
to determine your garden-plan. If you make it 
on turf, the green piece of paper or silk of the 
shape it is will make you a good ground, or if 
you mean to use gravel, you can have dingy 
blotting-paper. 
For trying the colours I have already mentioned 
wafers ; and when you want to have beds arranged 
in rows of different colours, you can get the effect 
beautifully by cutting pieces of coloured paper 
the size of half-crowns, shillings, sixpences, & c.; 
putting these together, one upon another, you 
can try them and change them as often as you 
like. 
For straight borders also you can do the same 
with strips. I have heard it proposed to work 
the pattern on canvas, so as to have it at hand to 
carry out to the garden ! 
The plan of using different sizes of different- 
coloured wafers or round patches is really very 
good. On a gravel ground, for instance, you 
would have all the largest circles green, because 
it would be best to edge the beds with green ; 
and then you could try purple, and then yellow 
or scarlet, or perhaps you might try a white edge, 
and then dark blue and crimson. You must, 
