8 WATER-LILIES 



grade down the upper side as much as is 

 necessary to bring the lower side about on 

 the natural level of the ground. 



It is essentially artificial to find anything 

 like a long dam or terrace descending from 

 the margin of a pond. 



OUTLINES IN RELATION TO SIZE 



It does not offend if the small tank takes 

 some conventional shape. A sunken tub is 

 essentially round, and a wooden or iron box 

 will unavoidably be ' square-cornered. A 

 brick or concrete construction, if not over 

 ten feet long, may be rectangular. But if 

 possible avoid geometry in the garden. A 

 bald circle with a gaping ring of cement be- 

 tween the sod and the water is not a thing of 

 beauty, though ponds of geometrical figure 

 edged with stone coping are effective in for- 

 mal gardens. 



Possibly the best of all is a narrow, curving 

 pool, like the bed of some slow stream. Let 

 it widen out here and there into broad, open 



