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emoved from the pond to permit the placing of a hot-water 

 oiler between the two bodies of water. In the pond thus made 



3 a perfection perhaps not surpassed elsewhere. I have spoken 

 f the necessity of concealing the rim with plants in ponds artifi- 

 ially made. Let some of the photographs here reproduced illus- 

 rate how this may be done. The heating apparatus was placed 

 i a small shed which was effectually concealed by the planting 

 f vines, giving it the appearance of a mound near the water's 

 dge. 



This site was an ideal one for the purpose, but there are many 

 -thers throughout the country equally well located. Here the 

 wo types of water garden were developed side by side : the one, 

 he transforming of an old swamp into a beautiful lake by means 

 of a dam ; the other, the creation of a pond out of a dry hillside 

 by purely mechanical means and artistically concealing the 



Let me emphasize not only the beauty of water gardens, but 

 sefulness also. Old swamps, the breeding places of mos- 

 5, and hence the birthplace of much malaria, may be trans- 

 I from these pest holes into objects of beauty — may be 

 ted from tangles of bush and briar, and scattered pools of 

 nt water, into little ponds or lakes, around whose mar- 

 ay be grown some of the most beautiful of flowers, and 

 waters may be decked with the daintiest and most attrac- 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT, 

 iam L. Bray has resigned the professorship of botany 

 'ersity of Texas in order to accept the professorship 

 n Syracuse University, recently vacated by Dr. J. E. 



r D. House has resigned the associate professorship 

 d bacteriology in Clemson College, South Carolina, 

 d the coming year at the Garden. 



