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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



it was surrounded by a clinker-built rockery in which nothing will 

 grow. This sort of fountain should be set in a grass plot, and a few 

 moisture-loving plants allowed to break the severity of its outline. I 

 remember one such, only about 5 feet in diameter, in a lawn near 

 London ; a simple brick and concrete basin with a jet in the centre, 

 which threw its spray up to the overhanging boughs of a stately 

 elm, and nourished one of the most splendid clumps of Osmunda 

 regalis I ever saw ; Flowering Rush too throve in its friendly 

 neighbourhood. There is a very attractive little fountain against the 

 wall of the fruit garden at Penshurst. If the fountain be on a larger 



Vine-shaded bower. 



scale than these the basin may be made lovely in the summer with 

 many varieties of aquatic plants, which being planted in boxes or 

 pots can be removed to the greenhouse before the frosts set in. 



One of the great merits of a fountain in a garden to the true lover 

 of nature is the attraction it forms for the birds ; they will haunt its 

 neighbourhood with delightful persistency, bathing and drinking at all 

 hours of the day. 



A fountain for the exclusive benefit of the birds was made in a 

 garden in New England by sinking a saucer-shaped hollow, about 

 6 inches deep, in the lawn, which was allowed to become grass-grown 



