PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



eight feet may be required for diving and swim- 

 ming. 



Payne Martyn voiced the expression of the uni- 

 versal desire when he said of the swimming pool: 

 "It is a walling in of a portion of an elemental thing, 

 and owning the tenth of an acre of the deep sea and 

 all rights and privileges thereto. When swimming 

 pools become as widely popular as they deserve to be, 

 the swim will be as much a daily necessity as the 

 breakfast. Bathing and swimming were never in- 

 tended to be divorced. Swimming was meant to be 

 one expression of a man's activity, and by means of 

 it unconsciously he was to achieve cleanliness. Every 

 piece of constructive work has its model in nature ; 

 just as the Gothic vault was an indoor imitation of 

 the forest isles, so the marble pool is just a high- 

 born adaptation of the old 'swimming hole.' It is 

 giving width and geometrical shape to the flow of 

 water." 



It will not be possible for all who are planning 

 garden swimming pools to provide the luxurious 

 surroundings that will make them a daily pleasure 

 throughout the year. But it will be feasible to build 

 inexpensive pools to> fit the requirements of the 

 majority of homes, that will be perfectly practical 

 in regard to safety devices for keeping them un- 

 harmed through the freezing weather and have them 



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