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ing stream. This is about four feet from the 

 ground. From this the water falls about a foot 

 into the main bathing-bowl, about eighteen inches 

 in diameter, built up with thin flat stones around 

 the edge of a large flat stone. It is shallow at the 

 edges all around and six inches deep in the centre, 

 but is filled with sand and fine gravel, crushed 

 stone, etc., so as not to be more than four inches 

 deep in the centre. The water falls from this into 

 a still larger pool which partially encircles the 

 base of the fountain, and which is a foot deep in the 

 middle and shallow at the edges. It can contain 

 water-lilies, pitcher- plant, cat- tails, and arrow- 

 wort, and is overhung by gentians and cardinal 

 flower, ferns and iris, jack-in-the-pulpit and blood- 

 root. It can all be arranged to have the music of 

 running water with a very small stream. 



" The idea as it has taken shape in my mind is 

 to have a pile of natural rocks which hold pools 

 of musical water, the whole set in a bosky dell of 

 natural wild flowers to make the birds feel at 

 home. A woodland spring is the type, in rocky 

 ledges. True to nature throughout. Nothing pro- 

 duces the complete harmony — birds, wild flowers, 

 mosses, ferns, rocks, trees — like the bosky-dell, 

 woodland-spring idea. It is restful and beautiful 

 enough to be the reason of its own being in and of 

 itself, even if the birds do not add their charms." 



