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The Young Gardener . 
when you understand it. I am really quite afraid 
myself of beginning to make garden plans. I think 
it is so pleasant that I quite forget to stop. Now 
I will try to describe to you how to do it, and the 
first wet day, when you cannot go out, I greatly 
advise you to take your paper and scissors and see 
what you can do. Whatever shape you mean your 
whole garden to be, you must get it measured to 
know how large it is both ways. 
We will suppose that you are to have a piece 
of ground in one corner of some lawn, just twelve 
yards across and exactly round. All round things, 
you know, are exactly three times as long round 
as they are across, so this garden of yours will be 
thirty-six yards round. 
I think myself you would find a much smaller 
piece answer well, for I always fancy it is nicer to 
have one bed beautiful, instead of twelve untidy. 
However, the size is a question that I have not got 
to decide. Whatever that size is, you had better 
take tw^o pieces of paper, one red or white, and the 
other green. Measure across the paper exactly as 
many inches as you have yards or feet of garden. 
If the garden is large you can count an inch to a 
yard ; if it is small, you may say an inch to a foot. 
This is called the scale . Counting your garden 
