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The garden and its accessories (1907)

Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 174

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has any semblance of symmetry. Arough arrangement of rocks is permissiblefor a cascade in a natural bit of country,or for a grotto spring, but it has no placeon well kept grounds. The fountain as shown in the pictureconsists of two circular terraced pools, thesmaller above the larger and the upper… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES from that to the lower. By this arrange-ment the water is a most conspicuousfeature, for it starts from a single head andis diverted into se\eral smaller spouts thatpass it on to the pool below. The rockwork is so arranged that small bog plantsas well as water plants…

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