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rooms and table from June to October, if the 

 flowers are picked regularly and the seed pods 

 not allowed to form. The vines should be 

 given a support as soon as the tendrils appear. 

 Wire netting makes a good and durable sup- 

 port for sweet peas. 



Water. -If the possibilities of a place include 

 water in the form of rivulet, stream, or pond, 

 the owner is indeed fortunate. Running water 

 enlivens a landscape ; still water renders it 

 peaceful and quieting. 



Along the wooded banks of the brook one 

 expects to find " tangles of vines and branches 

 and brakes." 



The pond or small lake, itself a thing of 

 beauty, offers unusual opportunities for the skill 

 of the gardener. Ash and sycamore and willow 

 and alder are looked for along its banks, and 

 it is surely a disappointment if none of them 

 are mirrored in its silvery surface ; for the 

 reflections in the water (Fig. 150) are the best 

 part of the picture.* 



A pond may simply look like a "cup set in 

 the ground," or form the most beautiful, and es- 

 sential part of the picture. A fringe of willows 

 may overhang its banks here and there. At 

 other points the grass and rushes should quench 



* Before leaving the subjsct, the student should be required 

 to draw an original design for a geometrical style and one for the 

 natural style of landscape-gardening. These plans should be 

 carefully worked out in ink on good paper and discussed in class. 



