WHERE WATER GARDENS CAN BE MADE 9 



Stretches if you wish. At the ends, also, or in 

 shallow pockets on the side, the water may 

 give place to a bog garden. On the northj 

 side a thicket of trees and shrubs may come 

 out to the water's edge. But keep the south 

 side clear, so as to admit every available ray 

 from the sun. 



TREATMENT OF MARGINS 



It is in the treatment of the margin that 

 we make or mar a pond's natural beauty. 

 There is no one way in which native waters 

 always meet the land, but there are some 

 ways in which they never do. Nature never 

 made broad borders of concrete or brick or 

 hewn stone. Therefore avoid these in mak- 

 ing a water garden. Rough stone walls are 

 permissible at inlet and outlet only and even 

 here they may be avoided if clayey soil can 

 be had, provided the bank can be made 

 proof against crawfish, which is most im- 

 portant. And in place of stones there will 

 spring up beds of moisture-loving mosses, 



