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THE FLOEAL WOKLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



plants, or during severe weather. This form of bottom also affords 

 the best possible facilities for repairing or altering the arrangements 

 of the plants ; they are readily accessible, and exotic aquatics, grown 

 in pots, may be immersed during summer at the several depths 

 which tbey require, and removed back to the house during the 

 severity of winter. 



As no one would desire to fill a pond with pot plants, the bed of 

 loam overlying the puddling affords abundant root-room for strong- 

 growing plants. In the cut is shown a water-lily in a basket ; this 

 being the readiest mode of introducing this queen of the waters, for 

 it is fixed in the first instance where required, and in time the 



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DESIGN FOB CLASSIC FOUNTAIN. 



basket crumbles away, and the roots spread, and the plant obtains 

 a fixity of tenure. 



Stone is unquestionably the material for fountains, but its cost 

 precludes any extensive use of it, and tbe best substitutes claim a 

 moment's consideration. There are several kinds of artificial stone 

 in use for garden embellishments ; and these being well adapted to 

 the purpose have done very much towards the revival of classic taste 

 in gardening, by placing within the reach of many who could not 

 aspire to the luxurious marble and porphyry of the old princely 

 fountains, a material in every way suitable by its durability and 

 cheapness, even when wrought to forms of high art, and its perfect 



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