PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



Another two-story spring house found at Harts- 

 ville, Pennsylvania,, is of novel type, as the roomy, 

 old-time structure where Washington and his army 

 quenched their thirst in revolutionary days has of 

 late years been divided into three small rooms one 

 of the lower ones, now a mere corner of the structure, 

 containing the spring, the adjoining room being a 

 tight, well-ventilated, window-lighted store-room 

 and the upper floor or loft room being fitted up as a 

 store-room or children's playhouse. 



In the Blue Mountains there are many low stone 

 spring houses thoroughly characteristic of the moun- 

 tain homes adjoining long and rambling, built sub- 

 stantially of stone, with overhanging eaves, and 

 nestling down in the wildwood shrubbery of rhodo- 

 dendrons and laurels, close beside a gushing, singing, 

 sparkling mountain stream. 



A good type found on many country seats is the 

 dome-shaped spring house. These are frequently 

 banked up with earth and sodded to form a mound of 

 green that is kept smooth and velvety by frequent 

 mowing, like the famous Andalusia spring house 

 illustrated; or the banked-up earth is planted with 

 some low trailing and blossoming annual, or allowed 

 to "grow wild" with perennial vines, and brier and 

 wild rose. In the mound houses the entrance side is 

 either walled up with stone, or there is a plain wooden 



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