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here and there along walks and paths, which could be 

 spurted upon the unsuspecting promenader and wet 

 him down pleasantly, for his host's great delight. 



Benches and seats are hardly less nor more than a 

 garden necessity and convenience, hence not to be in- 

 cluded in the playthings; but statuary, "dyalls" and 

 urns were sometimes of a spirit in keeping with the 

 gardener's jovial or imaginative mood. Particularly 

 were statues chosen for their appropriateness to the site 

 they graced. ^Eolus was put upon a hilltop, where he 

 might conveniently exercise his dominion over the 

 winds; Vallentia stood within the vale, Rusina in the 

 flower garden; Ceres, as goddess of all growing vege- 

 tation, Pomona, the special goddess of fruit, or the 

 lovely guardian nymphs, the Hesperides, were sta- 

 tioned in the orchards; swift- footed Mercury the guide 

 and god of eloquence, naked young Harpocrates, and 

 Angerona, the still, sweet goddess of silence, cautious 

 finger on lips, dwelt among the closest walks and pri- 

 vate recesses; while Aristaeus, who alone knows and 

 teaches their ways, kept watch among the bees. 



These, by the way, many of them "a store of bees" 

 were always as much a part of the garden's equip- 

 ment as the plants; and both curious and simple con- 

 trivances for birds were everywhere, developed accord- 

 ing to the fancy of the moment and the most con- 

 venient material as witness the grim death's heads 

 set atop the posts, earlier told about. 



