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adorned a little Paradise of freshness, and musical 

 with the tinkle of falling spray. In Figs. 205 

 and 206 are illustrated by sectional drawings and 

 photograph an attractive stepped lily pond at 

 Millfield, Brentwood, designed by Mr. A. Winter 

 Rose. The parapetted walls add considerably to its 

 effect. The interspersing of many little pools 

 tied together by a coherent geometrical design in 

 a long stretch of paving is another treatment of 

 water which is of large interest, as is shown by 

 Fig. 207. There is a suggestion of patches of 

 enamel set in ivory. 



Water takes its highest place in garden archi- 

 tecture when it determines the complete design of 

 an enclosed space, such as the pool garden at 

 Marsh Court, devised by Sir E. Lutyens, and illus- 

 trated in Figs. 208 and 209. No scheme contrived 

 within so small a com^pass could exceed in richness 

 of effect this combination of steps, paving, pool 

 and balustrade. A note of gaiety is added by 

 the lead hippocampi, to the modeUing of which 

 reference is made . later (see Fig. 221). In the 

 same manner, but on a smaller ■ scale, is the 

 delightful pool at Papillon Hall (Fig. 210), where 





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FIG. 213. — WALLED POOL WITH ANGLE FOUNTAINS, SHEWING MOORISH INFLUENCE. 



