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still wet, was the inexpensive yet very effective 

 provision made in one garden that I have known 

 of. Such a water holder, mounted on a rough 

 pile of stones and buried to its brim in vines, is 

 as picturesque as a very much more elaborate 

 pool, and is of course lighter and easier to 

 handle than one of stone or cement. It may be 

 affixed very easily to a single post, if an elevated 

 position is preferable for it. It is a bath only 

 for the most informal type of garden, however, 

 a cottage garden in the true meaning of the 

 word. Elsewhere something more distinctive 

 may be needed. A simple cement basin comes 

 nearer to the requirements of the average sub- 

 urban grounds, without being in the least pre- 

 tentious. One may be made by pouring the 

 cement into a mold made of burlap, doubled 

 and tacked into the top of a barrel. The dip of 

 the cloth takes on a very graceful form, and its 

 folds imprint melon-like ridges on the outside 

 of the basin that vary its surface pleasantly. 



Before the cement hardens the inside should 

 be worked out and hollowed and smoothed by 

 hand; and when the cement has finally set — 

 after an interval of about eight hours — the bar- 

 rel should be turned on its side and the basin 

 tipped out carefully, bottom side up. Then it 

 must be thoroughly wet down with a sprinkling 



