PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



a luxuriant tangle of flowering vines. The stone 

 arches of the porch show through the vines sugges- 

 tive of a cool resting place for the dairymaids, and 

 additional vine shelter and seclusion are afforded by 

 a stately pergola reaching out beyond the stone 

 porch. Down in the meadow slope the charming 

 picture-setting is completed by a shallow brook with 

 stepping stones and a vine-covered rustic bridge. 



Even the most elaborate and costly of these 

 perfectly equipped modern dairies are never out of 

 harmony with the old-time ideal of spring house 

 construction when thus made informal and unconven- 

 tional by fitting perfectly into the picture of their 

 surroundings. Although types may vary greatly 

 between the ten-dollar structure of rough field stone 

 and the elaborate Verner structure, they each fit so 

 perfectly into the landscape that they seem to have 

 grown there. In this lies, very largely, their peculiar 

 charm. 



