PRACTICAL GARDEN FOUNTAINS 



and design now gaining favor in celebrated American 

 gardens. 



There is very good reason for looking upon Mr. 

 Waldo Story as an authority on the subject, he being 

 widely known as one of the most successful designers 

 of fountains for English gardens. He had many 

 advantages to fit him for his work as a sculptor and 

 art designer, as he was not only the son of the well- 

 known American sculptor, with the advantage of in- 

 herited talent, but was carefully educated at Eton 

 and Oxford, and afterwards had a home in Italy, 

 where he was in touch with the art which most 

 appealed to him. 



When Mr. Story turned his attention to garden 

 decoration (after having achieved world-wide fame 

 as a sculptor) he delighted especially in constructing 

 wonderful fountains- Several years ago, during my 

 first trip to England to study types of garden archi- 

 tecture, I was given a list of three gardens which it 

 would be well worth while to visit because of their 

 famous fountains. From the clipping describing 

 these, I found that they were all "Story" fountains 

 and represented some of his best work. A descrip- 

 tion of what he has done in these three fountains will 

 give ideas of color and design helpful to other foun- 

 tain builders. At Cliveden, the Astor's ideally situ- 

 ated place on the Eiver Thames, he has laid out ter- 



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