THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



degree of architectural significance. The 

 aim was to give it as much character as 

 possible with the medium used, field 

 stone. The common practice in work of 

 this nature seems to be a striving for the 

 rustic, and the result is generally a pile of 

 stones in a fantastic arrangement that some 

 misguided person considers pretty ! Noth- 

 ing could be more out of place in a garden 

 that has any semblance of symmetry. A 

 rough arrangement of rocks is permissible 

 for a cascade in a natural bit of country, 

 or for a grotto spring, but it has no place 

 on well kept grounds. 



The fountain as shown in the picture 

 consists of two circular terraced pools, the 

 smaller above the larger and the upper one 

 surmounted by a large column-shaped 

 rock that supports a shallow shell-like 

 stone. From the centre of this stone the 

 water spurts vertically into the air and 

 returns to fall onto the upper pool and 

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