X 

 WATER, STONE, AND LEAD 



Pools and Fountains 



THE picture of the garden domain is cer- 

 tainly not complete without the grateful 

 presence of the pool or fountain. The three ele- 

 ments of water, earth, and sky, when the sun is at 

 its height, form a unity which is sadly broken when 

 the first-named is lacking. Not that water is 

 essential to the garden, for where the site does not 

 provide a stream it is often a difficult and costly 

 matter to introduce it. Yet it is worth having 

 whenever possible, for the sake of the companion- 

 ship between it and the flowers, and of the cool 

 freshness which pervades the atmosphere wherever 

 the still surface of the pool or the restless move- 

 ment of the fountain is to be seen. 



Where a stream runs through the garden, or is 



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