. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. of the line, and drawing half a circle with it; then taking a peg with a string half the length of the other, and another peg to the end, and tracing with it the smaller half circles, c and d. With the same strings and pegs you may easily trace, or have traced, the following figures. Even the latter, which Fig. 270. Fig. appears at hrst sight a very difficult figure to form on the ground, will be just as easily traced as the others. It will be observed that in all these figures the straight line is
. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. of the line, and drawing half a circle with it; then taking a peg with a string half the length of the other, and another peg to the end, and tracing with it the smaller half circles, c and d. With the same strings and pegs you may easily trace, or have traced, the following figures. Even the latter, which Fig. 270. Fig. appears at hrst sight a very difficult figure to form on the ground, will be just as easily traced as the others. It will be observed that in all these figures the straight line is only to serve as a guide to show the proper places for fixing the pegs; and that it is only to be formed by a piece of string stretched by pegs from one end of the figure to the other, which is to be removed as soon as the figure is sketched, and which is not to be traced on the ground at all. With the aid of these figures, and the pegs and strings, several very complicated gardens may be formed ; for instance, that shown in the fol- lowing outline. This garden is composed of a bed in the centre for a tree- rose, with a circle of dwarf-roses ; a gravel-walk surrounds these ; and there are five heart-shaped beds, which may be planted with scarlet pelargo- niums, yellow calceolarias, petunias white and purple, and tall yellow mimulus; and the crescent-shapea beds wnich are on grass may all be planted with different kinds of verbenas. This plan is also a good design for a rosery, — the roses to be planted in the beds, and in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original O'Neill, F. W; Williams, H. L. New York, C. W. Carleton & co.
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