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A PERSIAN GARDEN IN CA'i 



ALIFORNIA can lay claim to many a picturesque garde j 

 than Joseph Waldron Gillespie's Persian water garden j 

 tween midsummer and midwinter. In treatment it is s j 

 Naib-i-Sultan in the Shimran, and its plashing fountains 

 and its suburb outlook are the wonder of every one v 

 every drop of water is treasured owing to its scarcity, the Gillespie es 

 side, provides a cheap source of crystal clear water. It is first utilb 

 exedra. Below this pool, which is surrounded by a vine-festooned ] 

 bronze dolphin. From this it empties into a little basin of aquatic p] 

 whose central line of bricks are depressed just enough to confine the 1 

 proached from the side by a double avenue of stately Cocos plumosa am 

 whose motionless water surface takes the place of the conventional la 1 



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