Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 172
ol seen in the foreground ; fromhere it runs to the terrace below, whereit irrigates a rock garden of ferns andwild-flowers. Another fountain of simple constructionmay be seen on page 153. It is made offield stone with a cement lining. Thestones were carefully selected from oldnearby walls, and… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES degree of architectural significance. Theaim was to give it as much character aspossible with the medium used, — fieldstone. The common practice in work ofthis nature seems to be a striving for therustic^ and the result is generally a pile ofstones in a fantastic…
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