VI 

 NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL LAKES 



HOW TO CONVERT UNSIGHTLY SWAMP AND 

 MARSH LAND INTO BEAUTY SPOTS AND CON- 

 TROL OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES 



THE location and the treatment of the garden 

 lake will depend largely upon the natural advantages 

 afforded for its installation. The little stream or 

 brook fed by a hillside spring will afford the best 

 means of establishing a body of water of spacious 

 dimensions by simply damming up the stream after 

 providing the big water-tight basin in the lower sec- 

 tion of the garden, to which the water course leads. 

 When there is no stream of appreciable size, but a 

 low, wet, boggy spot or a bit of marshy land included 

 in the home grounds, the lake will naturally be 

 located at the place where this objectionable spot 

 can be dredged into a thing of beauty and charm. 

 Where there is neither stream nor low land, and the 

 water for the big basin must be piped from the 

 nearest source of supply, the location of the lake 

 is merely a matter of choice, and its treatment will 

 be of a more formal nature^ 



The possibilities of water gardening in effective 

 landscape work are endless; but in no other form can 

 practical beauty be so quickly installed as in con- 



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