. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . L GARDEN PLOTTING.—No. 18. To draw and transfer/ii;.41 to the ground. Fromcentre o draw circle abede f; divide it into fiveequal parts as before de-scribed. With point /ascentre draw arc 1, 1, as in-dicated by the thick anddotted lines; from thesame point draw arc 2, 2,as shown by radius / 2, 2 ;and from the same pointdraw arcs 3 and 4. Frompoints a, b, c, e, draw cor-responding arcs, and fromcentre o draw the outsidecircle. To transfer fig. 41 tothe ground. Find thecentre of the piece ofground, insert a peg as atcentre o, and
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . L GARDEN PLOTTING.—No. 18. To draw and transfer/ii;.41 to the ground. Fromcentre o draw circle abede f; divide it into fiveequal parts as before de-scribed. With point /ascentre draw arc 1, 1, as in-dicated by the thick anddotted lines; from thesame point draw arc 2, 2,as shown by radius / 2, 2 ;and from the same pointdraw arcs 3 and 4. Frompoints a, b, c, e, draw cor-responding arcs, and fromcentre o draw the outsidecircle. To transfer fig. 41 tothe ground. Find thecentre of the piece ofground, insert a peg as atcentre o, and lay the dia-meter line a d. Fromcentre o, with a string88 feet long, trace the out-side circle; reduce thestring 4 feet, and tracecircle a b c d e f withradius o a. From pointsa and d trace arcs inter-Beoting at t. Divide thediameter line a d, as de-scribed in fig. 40 (page886); lay a line from arcf, passing through the se-cond division and cuttingthe circle in /; insert apeg at point/; lay a linefrom / to a, which is oneside of the polygon, and DRAWING Fig. 41. Scale24feet to theinoh. apply the cord five timesto the circle and insert apeg at each point, as atpoints a, b, c, e, f. Fromthe peg at point /, witha string 45 feet long, tracearc 1, as shown by / it is better to tracethe arc from one side ofthe circle to the other, asshown by the thick anddotted line. As the arcsare traced from the cor-responding points of thepolygon, the walks can be^easily determined, and ahothe angles of the reduce the string4 feet, which is the widthof the walk, and trace arc2, as shown by the thickand dotted line. Fromthe same point, with astring 13 feet long, tracearc 3; reduce the string4 feet and trace arc the pegs at pointsa, b, c, e, with the samelengths of string, tracesimilar arcs, and the de-sign is complete. The fivetriangular figures roundthe centre pentagon arebeds. Where the lines cuteach other are the anglesof the beds, w indicates,the walks, b t
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