. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 369. The accompanying diagram represents the centre and a quarter of the Dutch or French garden at ^___^ Putteridge Bury, the seat of } | [ j j ' 1 \ Ih \ \ Colonel Sowerby. It would be best formed by drawing the cen- tre and the four semicircles, then drawing the diagonal lines, and, finally, the straight ones. This garden is sunk about IS inches or 2 feet beneath the surround- ing surface, and has a beautiful effect when looked down upon. As it was laid down and is still
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 369. The accompanying diagram represents the centre and a quarter of the Dutch or French garden at ^___^ Putteridge Bury, the seat of } | [ j j ' 1 \ Ih \ \ Colonel Sowerby. It would be best formed by drawing the cen- tre and the four semicircles, then drawing the diagonal lines, and, finally, the straight ones. This garden is sunk about IS inches or 2 feet beneath the surround- ing surface, and has a beautiful effect when looked down upon. As it was laid down and is still \inder the management of my brother, Mr. Robert Fish, I hope to furnish the mode of grouping it for the calendar in April or May. 370. The annexed engraving represents a quarter of the centre of the chief flower-garden at the Duke of Grafton's, at Euston, the other three-fourths being exactly its counterpart. Beginning at the centre, it would be easily trans- ferred to paper by dividing the dotted circle into an octagon, with the four centre sides longer than the four diag- onal ones : the other lines being straight, need no instructions. 371. In-egular figures and elaborate patterns in box are not so easily managed, although many of them are susceptible of being formed upon certain and easily- ascertained principles. In cases, how- ever, where it is otherwise, and the tracery is capricious and difficult to re- duce to rule, there is no better mode of transference to the ground than by running lines across it in all directions, so that the ground is divided into a series of squares of equal size, corre- sponding to the same squares on the paper reduced to a scale. Holding the paper in one hand and a pointed stick in the other, almost any design may be copied in this manner. Of course, the plan on the paper will be divided into squares in the same manner as the ground. It would also facilitate the transference of all plans, if the chief points of formation were boldly indicated
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