PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



property, where the country members quench their 

 thirst after their long "ride to meeting." In fact 

 so widespread has the "fad" become that home 

 builders in all sections are showing their apprecia- 

 tion of the restful beauty of this home accessory, 

 until it gives promise of pervading every farm home 

 and country estate that possesses a spring of clear, 

 cold water worthy of appropriate shelter. 



A landowner whose beautiful country estate, 

 with its spreading farm lands on every side, is far 

 dearer to him than his palatial brown stone mansion 

 in town said to the writer: "The sight of one of 

 these low-browed spring houses among the shelter- 

 ing hills and trees, with old-fashioned shrubs and 

 flowers in the nearby garden, connecting it with the 

 adjoining farm-house, is heart-warming, and redo- 

 lent of the wholesome life and good cheer that cen- 

 tred about the great stone fireplaces of the past. 

 But I will never be content," he continued, "until I 

 have actually built with my own hands a little spring 

 house of field stone such as I used to love on the 

 old farm back in Ohio." 



And build that spring house he did ! With huge 

 delight and with the vim and eagerness of boyhood 

 days, a joyous vacation season from down-town care 

 was spent in constructing a crude but charmingly 

 picturesque spring house on a hill slope, copied from 



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