PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



the general arcliitectural scheme, and in harmony 

 with the mansion and outbuildings of the estate. 

 The first floor of this structure is an open-air rest 

 room, with four great arches admitting light and 

 air. The second floor provides the ideal tower room ; 

 and in the great third-floor space the water taoik is 

 enclosed by massive stone and stucco walls, and 

 finished with a conical roof. The stone-arched rest 

 room gives entrance to a shady pergola with heavy 

 concrete columns leading to the side entrance of the 

 mansion. 



Built in harmony with modest little suburban 

 homes there are many rustic forms in which the 

 tank is securely supported at the right height to 

 provide water to the upper rooms, with designs in 

 lattice or trellis walls forming open-air rooms at 

 little cost. Towers built inexpensively of the field 

 stone found on the place, or of rough brick, are well 

 covered with ivy, which provides perpetual beauty 

 of green drapery without further care, when once 

 started. 



In the tropical sections of southern Florida there 

 are many charming types of garden towers in which 

 big tanks hold the ample supply of water demanded 

 in this section, and the space beneath is utilized by 

 building cool, airy, open rooms, in the midst of the 



orange and grape-fruit trees. One of the massive 



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