THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



page 145. A description of it will serve 

 to show a good method of building and 

 caring for garden pools of this nature. It 

 is the central feature of a small garden 

 that is only about one hundred feet square. 

 The pool is elliptical in shape about ten 

 feet wide and thirty feet long. It has no 

 curb showing between the water and the 

 open grass border around it. The turf 

 comes right to the water's edge in a nat- 

 ural way that is simple and refreshing. 

 The supply that is in the centf^ throws 

 a single stream straight into the air, and 

 is controlled by a stopcock on the edge 

 of the bank. The sides of the pool have 

 vertical walls of field stone set in cement, 

 and the face of the walls is grouted, 

 (covered with two inches of the same ma- 

 terial). The bottom is made of concrete, 

 quite level except for a slight pitch to the 

 outlet pipe, so, if necessary, all the water 

 may be drained off at any time. The pool 

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