136 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



its benefit alone; they should be planted in clumps, 

 some little distance apart and not in formal lines, for 

 realistic effect. 



Where there is no natural water supply, resource 

 must be had to the artificial pool of cement, and such 

 a pool is indispensable in all formal gardening, and 

 makes an objective point for the meeting of gar- 

 den paths, or the end of a walk that is not supplied 

 by any other form of bed or ornamental structure. 



The construction of cement pools is so simple that 

 any one handy with his hands can construct one, so 

 that where home talent is employed the expense is 

 not of serious moment. The dimensions, horizontally, 

 will depend upon the room at command and the 

 amount one wishes to expend, and, of course, upon 

 the location of the pool. The depth is always practi- 

 cally the same — two feet for the growiag of nymphaeas 

 of various sorts, eighteen inches beiag sufficient when 

 one prefers to grow the lotus. "Where the pool is to 

 form the center of a more or less formal garden of 

 moderate extent, a diameter of twelve feet will be an 

 excellent size, and a round pool is preferable to a 

 square or oblong one. For isolated pools on the lawn 

 or at one side, a larger pool of twenty feet long by 

 fifteen wide will give room for the growing of a 

 greater variety of lilies and a still larger one will ad- 

 mit of the growing of the Victorias, especially Victoria 

 Trickeri, which does not require artificial heat, but 



