Round Garden . 
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twelve yards across, and the scale being an inch to 
a yard, your paper will be, you see, just twelve 
inches or a foot across. That would take a yard 
of ribbon to go round it. You must remember 
this ; because if you make your garden very large, 
and the fence is to go all round, it will not be a 
small piece of work to make it, nor would it be 
inexpensive if you mean to buy wire fencing. 
So remember that for every extra yard that the 
ground is across, you will have three yards more 
to go round the edge. 
The paper when thus measured has to be cut 
round. Perhaps you have 
some compasses, or know how 
/to do this ; if not, fold the 
paper exactly in four, and 
measure half your number of 
inches along each edge, as in 
Fig. A, and then measuring 
a string exactly the same length, say six inches, 
hold one corner tight at the point h , and draw the 
other end round from c to d , with a pin just prick- 
ing the paper as it passes. 
You can keep the green circle to represent your 
grass, and then out of the red one you may make 
all sorts of shapes ; when you lay these shapes cut 
