CHAPTER VIII 



MATERIALS 



THE previous chapters have touched 

 lightly on the various materials 

 suitable for garden accessories. 

 Our country offers a wealth of these ma- 

 terials, in truth more adaptable to our 

 requirements than imported marble and 

 stone. What is needed is a proper under- 

 standing of the art of fashioning them into 

 objects of artistic value. 



All the materials of which houses are 

 built (stone, brick, wood, concrete, terra- 

 cotta and native marbles) offer themselves 

 at every hand for the embellishment of 

 gardens. If we but give as much thought 

 to their development for this purpose as 

 we do to buildings, they will take form fully 

 as advanced in aesthetic beauty. But we 

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