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water. The simple jet, however, can be used with 

 remarkable effect in many positions in the garden. 

 It brings life and gaiety wherever it appears, 

 whether flung from the centre or sides of a pool, 

 or from amidst a mass of flowers, or issuing 

 perhaps from a lonely wall, where it makes a gentle 

 music ever ready to surprise and gladden the ear. 



Figures and Vases of Stone and Lead 



Garden figures, vases, and the like, appear 

 to some people as merely the stage properties 

 of the outdoor scenic artist, and the same pre- 

 judice attaches to them that we have noted 

 in the case of all architecturally guided design. 

 It is true, of course, that many examples of these 

 ornaments, both on account of their poor quality 

 and ill-devised position, are deserving of censure ; 

 but it is no less true that, properly disposed, 

 they are inhabitants of the garden domain as 

 welcome as the very trees and flowers themselves. 

 They represent one of the many ways of introducing 

 the human element, the product of fancy, of the 

 poetic imagination, and of the love of symmetry and 

 graceful outline, with which it is man's part to 



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