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Old Time Gardens 



carefully thought-out gardens, the garden statuary 

 is a thing of beauty and often of meaning, as the 

 figure shown on page 84. Usually our statues are 



of marble, some- 

 timesajapanese 

 bronze is seen. 

 In the old 

 black letter 

 Gardener's Lab- 

 yrinth, a very 

 full description 

 is given of old 

 modes of water- 

 ing a garden. 

 There was a 

 primitive and 

 verylimitedsys- 

 tem of irriga- 

 tion, the water 

 being raised by 

 " well-swipes " ; 

 there were very 

 handy punch- 

 eons, or tubs on 

 wheels, which 

 could be trun- 

 dled down the 

 garden walk. 



There was also a formidable " Great Squirt of Tin," 

 which was said to take " mighty strength " to handle, 

 and which looked like a small cannon ; with it was 

 an ingenious bent tube of tin by which the water 



Iron-work in Court of Colt Mansion, Bristol 

 Rhode Island. 



