132 WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



Where tubs of aquatic plants are not sunk in the 

 ground their form seems to suggest some rather 

 symmetrical arrangement, but in this case their dis- 

 position would entirely depend on what local circum- 

 stances would offer or demand. 



The little bog -garden will probably belong to 

 persons of small or moderate means, to whom it is 

 an object to avoid costly labour. Many an owner 

 of such a little place has pronounced mechanical 

 tastes and will do all but the heaviest earth-work 

 himself. He will set the stones and make the 

 cemented channels, and knock up a rather close- 

 paled trellis to hide the supply barrel, or even cover 

 it with an outer skin of rough rock-walling that would 

 make a good show on the bog-garden side. It would 

 be as well not to build the barrel right in, but only to 

 make a veiling wall showing to the bog-garden, so 

 that the barrel could be changed if necessary. The 

 piece of rock-wall would be buttressed back on each 

 side of the barrel and a little rough arch made in 

 front for hand access to the tap. Then somewhere 

 there might be a small dipping tank; such as the 

 one whose corner shows in the illustration. This is an 

 actual tank in just such a garden as has been described. 

 It is filled by rain water that runs down a path beyond 

 the mound which rises at its back, and a ten-foot 

 length of iron pipe brings it through. It was an easy 

 job to make a foot or two of stone and cement 

 channel with a small catchpit to stop the sand at the 

 upper end of the pipe. The dark hole under the 



