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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 19 lo 



and the 

 of Anna 



Pacific 

 island 

 Cappa. 



Thus the color 

 picture is exquisite, 

 for the water re- 

 flects a broad sur- 

 face of charming 

 blue, besides the 

 white and green of 

 its surroundings, 

 and it is so clean, so 

 washed of all that 

 worries and ob- 

 trudes unpleasantly 

 that one is tempted 

 to sit and dream for 

 an indefinite time 

 beside these silent 

 pools. Seeing them, 

 it is easy to under- 

 stand the worship 

 of water-gardens, 

 that obtains in tor- 

 rid countries. Below 



■"ig. 3 — A novel feature of Mr. Eaton's water garden is the floating tea-house built 

 for the small lake in the center of the garden 



On another slope 

 of the hill where 

 the descent is more 

 gradual, Mr. Gil- 

 lespie, the owner of 

 these gardens, has 

 obtained a distinctly 

 different effect. 

 Here the "precious 

 sparkling fluid" 

 slips down the hill- 

 side through a nar- 

 row stone channel, 

 which is laid in the 

 center of a broad 

 m o s a i c e d brick 

 pavement. The 

 slope is gentle and 

 the water glides 

 over its stone bed 

 in a never-ceasing 

 flow which charms 

 the eye and the 

 senses. On the brow 

 of the hill at the head 



this plateau of pools the side of the mountain is terraced to its of the walk, stands a white-columned pergola (Fig. 6), and a 



foot and the stone stairway ends at each terrace to develop a curved stone bench invites one to rest beneath the rose vines 



pool or fountain. that shade it. Below the hill at the other end of the pavement 



Italian cypresses guard the steep descent, and clipped the water finds vent in a fountain, where it pours through the 



hedges of cypress form a wall of green which marks the line mouth of a great lion's head. 



of the terrace, while pink and white and yellow water lilies The charm of a single shining thread of water slipping 



float on these lower sheets of water, as pictured in Fig. 7. noiselessly down the middle of a broad flat pavement is 



Fig. 4 — The fountain in Mr. Canfield's water garden 



