XXX 



TEMPLES AND BELVEDERES 



APPROPRIATE SITUATION AND GREEN BACK- 

 GROUND ARE IMPORTANT 



THE classic beauty of the Greek temple and the 

 Italian belvedere has been practically established in 

 many of our American gardens by two distinct 

 methods. The man of small means and great am- 

 bitions for his home garden has carefully studied 

 the best types of this increasingly popular form of 

 garden embellishment, and with clever manipula- 

 tions of trowel and home-made molding boards and 

 concrete mixtures, he has built his charming garden 

 temples in harmony with the concrete or plaster 

 house on his suburban place. On the other hand, the 

 man of wider reaching ambitions, and with wealth to 

 gratify them, has .spent considerable sums of money 

 in travel and research among the antiquities of 

 Grecian and Egyptian gardens and among Italian 

 villas for costly temples of beautiful marbles and 

 rare carvings. Thousands of dollars have thus been 

 expended in the purchase of these treasures as gar- 

 den embellishments, and in importing and placing 

 them on the American country seats of aspiring 

 garden lovers. 



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