PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



artists and sculptors for show places on famous 

 country seats offer very different problems. They 

 are receiving considerable attention in the increasing 

 desire to introduce the charm of old-world gardens 

 on American estates. In connection with his knowl- 

 edge of practical fountain requirements, the expert 

 must go deeper into the study, and get in touch with 

 all the old gods of mythology, especially with the 

 enchanting race of water deities. He must secure 

 an intimate knowledge of Neptune, with his trident 

 and sea-horses, mermaids and mermen. He must 

 poss.es s the gift of discrimination in introducing 

 dolphins, tritons, fishy tails, cupids and nymphs of 

 every degree, frolicking in the gushing water, spout- 

 ing it out through horns and shells and inflated nos- 

 trils, pouring it from reversed urns, and making a 

 veritable water-carnival; from all which it will re- 

 quire fine artistic discernment to choose wisely in 

 fountain combinations. 



The study of fountains in old English gardens is 

 worthy of special consideration in order to obtain 

 good ideas in coloring, as well as design, for fountain 

 construction. Naturally one turns, first to the won- 

 derful French conceptions, as portrayed in the 

 famous Versailles fountains, or to Italian designs, 

 in celebrated Eoman types; but it is in the " Story" 

 fountains of England that we find the true coloring 



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