The Rescue of an Old Place 



cause the bulbs were defective, it is im- 

 possible to say. It may be that the spring 

 is too cold for them, and that they require 

 the warmer water of a pond ; but they 

 should not be difficult to raise, for I saw 

 a pink Water-lily blossoming this summer 

 A rocky in a rocky pool, with nothing to grow in 

 but the ball of rich mud in which it had 

 been tightly packed before being gently 

 laid in its stony bed. The picturesque 

 pool is a feature of a small terraced gar- 

 den, built out from the rocky side of a 

 steep hill that descends abruptly to the 

 seashore of Massachusetts Bay. The ter- 

 race is approached from the level on 

 which the house above it is built, by a 

 rough stone stairway, that has for a balus- 

 trade a huge granite boulder, overgrown 

 with Ivy, and surmounted with trees. 

 Great rocks inclose the terrace on three 

 sides, and down the almost perpendicular 

 face of one of them trickles the thread-like 

 stream that falls into the pool below. The 

 overflow wanders away in a small grassy 

 channel, along the edge of which tiny 

 water-plants grow, and Cardinal -flowers 

 blossom. In the basin a pink Water-lily 

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