THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



Concrete can be readily fashioned into 

 any form, just as plaster and clay that is 

 fashioned into terra-cotta or bronze take 

 on the form of the mould into which they 

 are run. 



Some concrete is liable to form hair- 

 cracks, or crazing cracks, on the surface 

 soon after it is exposed to the weather ; 

 but these do not imperil the strength of 

 the material. They are fine cracks, hardly 

 the size of a hair, both in depth and breadth. 

 They are not a drawback to a garden piece, 

 but rather seem to give it a look of age. 



There is no excuse for attempting to 

 make concrete appear what it is not, any 

 more than there is for disguising the ma- 

 terial of which any object is made. The 

 writer feels that he cannot insist too 

 strongly on this point. Some attempts 

 have been made to fashion it so as to 

 imitate natural and rock-faced stone, but 

 the results have been for the most part 



