JVater in the Formal Garden. 



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forgotten. Fig. 228 shows a shallow bird bath made 

 of lead, and Fig. 227 a chaHce-shaped vessel of terra- 

 cotta, both admirable in their different fashions. 



There are few small gardens that can boast a 

 stream or an old moat, but either is a welcome 

 feature, for it gives opportunity for a bridge. Illus- 

 trations elsewhere in this book {e.g., Figs. 21 and 194), 







FIG. 227. — CHALICE BIRD BATH. 



FIG. 22b. — SHALLOW BIRD BATH OF LEAD. 



show how effectively bridges can be contrived in connection with pools, and the 

 problem of a little stream is not greatly different in kind. In the little garden at 

 Kelsale Manor, Saxmundham, there is an old and narrow moat, over which Mr. A. 

 Winter Rose has thrown a little oak bridge, which is shown in Fig. 230. Over a 

 continuation of this moat is a small stone bridge "by a curved stairway (Fig. 231). 

 It forms a connecting link between the lawn and the parkland beyond. 



Most of the pools illustrated in this chapter are designed on definitely formal 

 lines, and it is only rarely that naturalistic treatment produces satisfactory results. 

 When, however, a 

 cottage has been 

 set on a rough 

 hillside and the 

 heather reaches to 

 the door, a 

 conscious garden 

 scheme may be 

 u n d e s i r able or 

 even impossible. 

 Such is the case 

 at S t o n e y w e 1 1 

 Cottage in Charn- 

 wood Forest 

 (Fig. 232), where 

 the margin of the 

 bathing - pool has 

 been made to 

 follow the natural 

 contour of the 

 ground. Mr. 

 Ernest G i m s n 

 has shown a just 



FIG. 229. — A GOOD XVIII. CENTURY TANK. 



