A SMALL WATER GARDEN 377 



the surface of the ground; the lower it is the better 

 the effect will be. The urns and the fountain that 

 are in the plan may be omitted, and for the latter 

 a small inconspicuous pipe substituted to provide 

 water for the basin. In place of stone benches 

 English garden seats might be used with just as 

 good results, but seats of some sort you should have 

 as you will use them continually. Around the cop- 

 ing a turf border may be laid instead of the bed of 

 Aegopodium in the plan (No. 10). Make the turf 

 border one and one-half feet wide and plant it with 

 clumps of Japanese Iris, Iris sibirica and Flower- 

 ing Fern, naturalizing Narcissi between the clumps. 

 The border should be confined by a brick coping, 

 the ends of the bricks being embedded and pro- 

 truding two inches above the level of the path. 



On the curved side of the pool build a shelf ten 

 inches wide with a side four inches high, and place 

 it so that it will be four or five inches below the 

 surface of the water. This shelf is 4, 5, 6, 7 in the 

 plan and should be planted with (4 and 6) Parrot's 

 Feather, (5) Water Poppy, and (7) Bulrush. Also 

 make shelves for the two angles (8) and plant them 

 under water with the Cat-tail Flag (Typha lati- 



