APPENDIX
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR LADY GARDENERS
HINTS FOR LAYING OUT FLOWER BEDS
A Lady Gardener may have to arrange new ornamental flower beds, and a few hints about pegging out the shape may be useful. It does not always follow that a design for a formal flower plot works out as well in reality as it does upon paper. In order to gain a good impression of what their effect will be when finished they should be marked out with pegs and white tape or string tied round these to show the outline of the future beds. That is, if ground that has already been broken up is being dealt with.
Should, however, a wide stretch of lawn have to be marked out in flower beds, a capital plan is to draw the outline of them with a whitewash brush upon the grass, in the same way that a lawn tennis court is marked. Having ascertained that no improvement or alteration will be necessary, work can then be commenced with the turf cutter.
It is convenient, for drawing circular or other beds, to have a garden compass. Should this not be handy, a couple of stout iron pins and a length of rope will answer the purpose.
The compass consists of a stout iron pin and a light, flat rod of wood six to ten feet long, with holes drilled the whole length, one inch apart. One end of the rod has a perfectly round ring, which will turn easily on the pin. A second pin or rod about three feet long is needed as a marker.
Fig. 1
In making a circular bed (Fig. 1), the centre is first determined on, and the stout pin is driven in through the ring. The marking pin is then placed in the hole corresponding to the required radius. With it the circle is drawn.
