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as a necessity, as like that last touch of colour in a picture 



which sets the whole canvas in a flame." Figures look 



well in wall niches, as in the garden, designed by Mr. 



A. Winter Rose, which appears in Fig. 319. The kneeling 



Boy with Dolphin, which serves as a fountain in the pool 



at Wych Cross Place (Fig. 329) has beauty in its own right, 



for it was modelled by Puech, an artist who has added no 



little to the beauty of Paris by his monuments. None the 



less, it is in the reflections it casts on the still water, and 



in its judicious placing by Mr. Thomas Mawson in relation 



to the terrace steps, that no little of its charm resides. 



A like fancy is the Cupid and Swan of Fig. 328, which 



makes an ideal ornament for a pool. 



Among the many subjects with which the old 



designers chose, to people their gardens there is none 



which is so steadily successful as Pan. The Romans used 



his bust chiefly as a Term set on a diminishing pedestal, 



and it is in this form and from a modern model that 



Fig. 327 shows him. Lead holds indisputably first place as 



the material for garden ornaments in England ; but it 



is apt to be expensive, and cement, if rightly used and 



coloured, makes a satisfactory substitute. There remains 



terra-cotta, which can be admirable if of quiet colouring 



and attractive texture ; but the shiny red of some clays 



is hard and unpleasant. Some delightful garden pottery 



of subdued reds 

 and greys is made 

 by the Potter's 

 A r t s Guild at 

 Compton, Surrey, 

 the enterprise of 



Mrs. G. F. Watts. The bird bath, illustrated 

 in another chapter, is a good example of the 

 service ceramics can do to the garden, and 

 there are many satisfactory bowls to be had 

 in the same material, modelled on simple 

 lines and sparingly decorated with swags of 

 fruit and the like simple devices. 



The right placing of statues and vases is 

 of as much importance as their intrinsic 

 merit. What, for example, could be 

 pleasanter than the flower-pot on an old 

 millstone which ends a stone-flagged path 

 (Fig. 330). In the background is seen the 

 always welcome figure of Gian di Bologna's 

 Flying Mercury, who seems here to have 

 alighted on a sea of bloom. Both vases and 

 statues are very well employed in adorning 

 balustrades and stairways, as in the example 



FIG. 328. CUPID AND SWAN RISING FROM POOL, illustrated in Fig. 331. at Sandhouse Witley, 



FIG. 327. A TERMINAL PAN. 



