THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



us envy the artist who can see such beauty 

 in a landscape, when to the layman it exists 

 only half appreciated. 



Another interesting feature about it is 

 the way it attracts the birds. They seem 

 to delight in its mysterious pictures, and 

 are frequently to be seen hovering about it 

 like a moth around a lamp. " Place me 

 right and I will show the garden's beauty 

 that you don't know " is an inscription that 

 might well be placed on the base of one 

 of these globes. Those that are pictured 

 here are mounted on pedestals of composi- 

 tion stone that have been cast from moulds. 

 The writer remembers seeing one of these 

 balls in an old English garden seven years 

 ago. It made such a pleasant impression 

 that he determined at the time to get one if 

 possible, but hunted in vain for a shop that 

 sold them. Only recently a glass manu- 

 facturer was found who said he could make 

 such a globe, in fact, he recalled making 



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