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with graceful, reaching branches — and I should encourage 

 the young stem to lean toward the pool that its beauty 

 be given us again from the clear water and its shadow lend 

 variety to the quiet surface. When the pool is set in an 

 open space of grass it creates, with the little spreading tree, 

 a most delightful picture, and even a quite formal garden 

 might be the more approachable for such a bit of captivating 

 inconsistency. 



Quite different, but even more fascinating and suggestive, 

 are the pools of Italian gardens, where only the moon dares 

 brave the sombre guardianship of the sentinel pines to lie 

 upon the surface of the darkened water. These, too, we 

 may have, by marshalling slim Red Cedars about our little 

 basin — quite large ones may be transplanted with care — 

 and will soon create something of the brooding atmosphere 

 of mystery that one associates with the garden pools of 

 Italy. 



Here, as by the broader natural waterside, plants of 

 slender rushlike growth and spirelike blossoming give the 

 best effect. Lupines are particularly happy in such a 

 position if the soil is not actually wet, and cast classic 

 reflections. Here, too, we shall enjoy the silvery foliage and 

 blue-green reflections of the Sea Lyme Grass (Elymus 

 arenarius). 



For a damp bed about the pool in the garden we have 

 a wide choice of plants. All the Lemon Lilies will thrive 

 here, but it is best to choose some of the finer sorts like 

 Hemerocallis Florham, H. citrinum, or H. luteola major, 

 that are not in quite such haste to populate the world. 

 There the Globe Flowers attain fine proportions and glowing 



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