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water and gives dense cover, and, grouped among Dog- 

 woods and Wild Guelder Rose, does not look amiss. 



A danger of water. The ugly pieces of artificial water, 

 which so often disfigure country places, are often the 

 cause of fatal accidents. These result chiefly from the 

 stiff way in which the margins of such waters are made. 

 Instead of the bank gradually sloping into the water, as 

 is usual in natural lakes, it is frequently hipped in a 

 steep way, leaving the water too deep at the margin. 

 All artificial waters in any position where there is danger 

 of children falling into them, should be made shallow 

 and have a gradual slope from the margin. The bank 

 of turf should fall gently to the water — never jump 

 abruptly out of it— and the bottom should fall shallow 

 from the margin. Art and safety go hand in hand in 

 this way, for the abrupt margin is an eyesore to good 

 effect, and wrong in every way for the plants that should 

 grow on it, and is against the effects that should arise 

 out of any happy union of shore and water. 



