LAKE PAVILIONS AND TEA ROOMS 



Lucullus and his live lampreys. Our architects only 

 imitate. They all go to Eome and Pompeii for in- 

 spiration. We flatter ourselves that we do things on 

 a big scale, but for colossal things you must go to 

 Borne." 



We may find many convincing arguments against 

 this declaration ; for we have learned how to handle 

 water features that the Eomans never dreamed of. 

 Without travelling very far among famous American 

 estates, we find marvels accomplished in dyking and 

 dredging to form wonderful water parks; we find 

 artificial lakes entirely free from the disfiguring 

 green scum known as algae; we find poisonous 

 malarial swamps converted into beautiful garden 

 ponds and canals ; we find damp, boggy pest-holes in 

 little gardens transformed into fascinating water 

 features, rivalling those of big estates, and accom- 

 plished at little expense. 



Best of all, we have discovered that the danger 

 arising from what the Eomans thought was bad air 

 that proved so destructive in the Campagna and 

 what was in reality malarial fever germs carried by 

 mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles can be obliter- 

 ated from our ponds by the introduction of the right 

 kind of fish to eat the wrigglers. Then by keeping 

 the margins of our lakes and ponds free from the 

 grass and weeds that provide a hiding place for 



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