THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



spend a happy existence amid congenial 

 surroundings. 



If your garden will stand a figure it will 

 be best suited by one that is symbolic of 

 some phase of outdoor life, a Pan play- 

 ing his pipes, or the bust of a Faun or 

 Satyr in the form of a terminal piece, or a 

 Hermes. Such were called those pieces 

 of statuary that the Greeks and Romans 

 fashioned on shaft-like pedestals. They 

 are less suggestive of living forms than 

 figures in their entirety. 



These terminal figures were used by the 

 ancients as mile-stones and guide-posts, 

 being placed at stated intervals by the 

 roadside. 



The character of the figure should har- 

 monize with the character of the garden. 

 Dying gladiators and other " death agonies " 

 would give such a discordant note as to 

 ruin all the peaceful feeling that a garden 

 might have. If, while walking about a 

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