■170 GAEDEN ORNAMENTS 



Cost is not the only thing to be taken into con- 

 sideration when creating garden effects. Char- 

 acter should be considered as weU. In order to 

 obtain this satisfactorily, the accessories should be 

 planned by a connoisseur, such as an architect be- 

 comes after many years' study of the subject. The 

 fountain is the most important detail and requires 

 more careful thought than any other part of the 

 garden setting. It makes no difference what its 

 construction is, so that it fits in with the scheme. 



Great care should be taken not to introduce dif- 

 ferent periods or materials when placing garden 

 ornaments on our grounds. Take, as an instance, a 

 home-made fountain and place it in close proximity 

 with an imported one and note the result. You 

 will see the lack of harmony. The Italian foun- 

 tain belongs distinctively to the formal or Italian 

 lay-out, and should never be used, with the excep- 

 tion of making a central feature on a lawn, in any 

 other way. If you place the Creek fountain on a 

 hillside where landscape effects have been worked 

 out through the use of cascades that dash over ter- 

 races and under rustic bridges, you will see it is 

 entirely out of place and in the wrong surround- 

 ings. 



