. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 156 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. better method of forming curved lines than that described by Mr. Alexander Forsyth, in the first volume of the London Garde7iers' Magazine. To form a volute with numerous spaces .-—Make a circle around the centre of your intended volute, as much in circumference as you intend the breadth of your circuitous border to be. Stick the circumferential line full of pegs, and tie one end of a garden-line to one of them ; then, taking the other in your hand,
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 156 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. better method of forming curved lines than that described by Mr. Alexander Forsyth, in the first volume of the London Garde7iers' Magazine. To form a volute with numerous spaces .-—Make a circle around the centre of your intended volute, as much in circumference as you intend the breadth of your circuitous border to be. Stick the circumferential line full of pegs, and tie one end of a garden-line to one of them ; then, taking the other in your hand, go out to the point where you intend the volute to begin, and, as you circumambulate, holding the line strained tight, you will delineate on the ground the figure required. To form the spiral line where the border is narrower, towards the centre, like the shell of a snail:—Make a circle as before, and, instead of driving the pegs upright, let them form a cone ; or, instead of pegs, use a large flower-pot whelmed, and, if necessary, a smaller one whelmed over it. Measure the radius of your volute, and wind that complement of Hne round the cone in such a manner as to correspond with the varying breadth of your intended border, and commence making the figure at the interior by unwinding the line. 267. The following description of how to form an egg-shaped figure is from Mcintosh's "Book of the ; The lineal being given, divide it into two equal parts; from the point c, where these lines intersect each other, construct a circle with the radius ca or cb; draw the line cd perpendicular to ab ; taking a and b as centres, describe two arcs; draw a line from b through d, till it cuts the arc at/; then, with d as a radius, complete the figure. The following groups frequently met with in gardening are given, with their centres indi- cated, to facilitate their easy transference to the ground. They are copied by Mr. Mcintosh from a German work entitled " Handbibliot
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