22 
The Young Gardener . 
out on the green paper, you can guess a little how 
your beds of flowers will look at last upon the 
grass itself And again, if you would like to have 
a border all round the edge, except where the gate 
is, and either one large bed, or a set of little beds 
together, in the centre, you might get several 
coloured wafers and put them on your green paper, 
and see how they would look. 
Or you may, if you like it, have a square rustic 
arbour in the centre, and at every corner-post have 
a round bed of flowers, out of which a corner 
would of course be taken on the arbour side. This 
is extremely pretty with Pillar Poses growing up 
the post that goes at the corner, and bushy 
plants and evergreens in each of the beds at the 
side next the arbour. The same plan will answer 
in marking out your garden on the ground 
as that which you adopted in making the paper 
pattern. 
You measure the length one way, halve it, and 
mark the middle. Measure the length the other 
way, halve it again, and again mark the middle. 
You must manage so that the middle of each shall 
be marked by the same stick, and that will be the 
middle of your plot. 
Having got the middle fixed for you, you must 
