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THE JOYS OF A GAR- 

 DEN POOL. 



There is no need to plead the 

 merits and joys of a garden 

 pool. Thej- are everywhere 

 acknowledged, and every one 

 has a pool who can afford the 

 cost or the water. Growing 

 aquatic plants is but one of the 

 pleasures. Would that our 

 tiuwer-beds could be so beau- 

 tiful in their surface and ap- 

 pealing in movement, so satis- 

 fying, in short, whether the 

 flowers grow or not ! 



The structural design of a 

 pool is not a difficult matter. As 

 a piece of engineering, it is 

 simple so long as the pool is 

 full of water. If it be emptied, 

 then the walls of the pool be- 

 come a retaining-wall and must 

 be designed to resist earth- 

 pressure, and, if it be in low 

 ground, possibly hydrostatic 

 pressure. 



The pool, however, presents a 

 difficulty in that it must be 

 water-tight, so that a movement 

 of the walls which would pass 

 unnoticed in a terrace wall will 

 produce cracks which are sure 

 to leak. This is most likely to 

 happen if the pool be empty in 

 \\'inter, when the pressure of 

 the frozen ground will inevit- 

 ably crack the walls by moving 

 them slightly inward. Leaving 

 the pool full of water through 

 the Winter usually prevents this 

 damage, s'nce the ice-pressure 

 is equalized by the ground- 

 pressure outside and the ice 

 buckles or slips on the side of 

 the pool until the outside and 

 inside pressure are practically 

 the same. 



It has been our invariable ex- 

 perience that damage happens 

 only when pools are emptied in 

 the Winter, and that pools with 

 water in them never come to 

 harm so long as the water-level 

 ill Winter and the ground level 

 are the same. — Landscape 

 Architecture. 



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MEMORIES OF 

 TERDAY 



My garden draws its bloom 

 from many climes — 

 Lilies from Spain ; red roses 



bred in France ; 

 White daphne, redolent of old 

 romance. 

 From Grecian groves : slim, 



silver-tassled limes 

 From quaint Dutch highways; 

 Canterbury chimes 



Prom Sussex hollows: quinces 

 Japan ; 



\\ ild honeysuckle from far Ispahan, 

 And Tuscan almonds famed in Petrarch's 



rhymes. 

 ■\m\ strolling down the bordered pathways, 



sweet 



With fragrances so many winds have *' 

 blown, 



Is like a glance through diaries, replete 

 \\ ith chronicles of happy moments known 



In distant lands — each blossom fresh and 

 gay, 



Marking some memory of yesterday. 



Ch.\rlotte Becker, in Life. 



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