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ing stream. This is about four feet from the 

 ground. From this the water falls about a foot 

 into the main bathing-bowl, about eighteen inches 

 in diameter, built up with thin flat stones around 

 the edge of a large flat stone. It is shallow at the 

 edges all around and six inches deep in the centre, 

 but is filled with sand and fine * gravel, crushed 

 stone, etc., so as not to be more than four inches 

 deep in the centre. The water falls from this into 

 a still larger pool which partially encircles the 

 base of the fountain, and which is a foot deep in the 

 middle and shallow at the edges. It can contain 

 water-lilies, pitcher- plant, cat-tails, and arrow- 

 wort, and is overhung by gentians and cardinal 

 flower, ferns and iris, jack-in-the-pulpit andblood- 

 root. It can all be arranged to have the music of 

 running water with a very small stream. 



" The idea as it has taken shape in my mind is 

 to have a pile of natural rocks which hold pools 

 of musical water, the whole set in a bosky dell of 

 natural wild flowers to make the birds feel at 

 home. A woodland spring is the type, in rocky 

 ledges. True to nature throughout. Nothing pro- 

 duces the complete harmony birds, wild flowers, 

 mosses, ferns, rocks, trees like the bosky-dell, 

 woodland-spring idea. It is restful and beautiful 

 enough to be the reason of its own being in and of 

 itself, even if the birds do not add their charms." 



