PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



races with stone balustrades and great vases for 

 flowers ; lie has designed flights of steps which sug- 

 gest the Villa d'Este, and are yet in perfect harmony 

 with the English landscape, and has placed a circular 

 seat just where it ought to be, under the shadow of 

 the spreading trees. Here, too, he has designed a 

 colossal fountain representing nymphs drinking from 

 the fountain of love. This fountain is remarkable 

 for its color secured by contrasting metals and mar- 

 ble. The figures are of green bronze, and stand on a 

 shell of purple Verona marble, which is placed in a 

 reservoir sixty feet across, l^ned with blue 1 mosaic. 



At Blenheim Palace is the fountain which Mr. 

 Story designed for the Duke of Marlborough, which 

 has a figure of Victory in golden bronze with green 

 bronze draperies, holding high in air a crown from 

 which the water sprinkles down into a basin of yel- 

 low Siena marble. This basin is supported by green 

 bronze dolphins, with figures of nymphs and cupids 

 sporting round, and its rim is hidden by carefully 

 kept turf over which the water laps. In the original 

 design the basin was to have been lined with pale 

 blue mosaic. 



It is, however, at Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's 

 place, "Ascott Wing," that two of the finest exam- 

 ples of Mr. Story's designs of fountains are to be 

 found. The larger represents The Triumph of Grala- 



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