December, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



487 



A vista through temple gate pergola 

 spatter into hundreds of iridescent drops far out into the 

 lake over the sporting gold fish below. Do not try to stop 

 that leak, it freshens the air and may even produce a 

 miniature fog to be seen when the conditions of air and 

 sunshine are favorable, that envelops the mountain at all 

 times, to keep it green, even to the moss planted in the 

 canvon crevices, rivalling nature. 



Let us select for rocks the quartz crystal ones, really 

 crystalline sand, which are found closely associated with 

 lead and zinc ores, as these are honeycombed with holes 

 of all sizes up to an inch or more and in length only limited 

 by the size of the stone. 



In color, reds, browns, touches of gray, yellow and crys- 

 tal predominate. 



These rocks appear much water worn or volcanic, but 

 are really chemically formed and crystallized out of a strong 

 alkaline solution under great heat and pressure with a 

 trace of iron for color and afterward through volcanic 

 action deposited on the surface and found as field stones 

 beautifully weathered, touched with moss and vegetation 

 and called by the natives mineral blossom. 



For garden work these rocks are much superior to 

 boulders or water worn rocks due to their colors that blend 

 so well with the green, and owing to their porous nature 

 they are most attractive to vines, moss ferns and wild 

 flowers. 



This variety of rocks has the very decided advantage over 

 boulders that they can readily be changed to any shape 

 by a cold chisel and hammer in the hands of 

 any one, though inexperienced in stone work. 



The exposed cells offer the strongest pos- 

 sible attachment for cement work, best il- 

 lustrated In stone seats, temple gates and 

 wall arches. 



The unique and highly artistic garden 

 shown in the illustrations occupies a space 

 of only 60x40 feet, but contains four 

 waterfalls of which one is illuminated, seven 

 bodies of water, large and small; three 

 bridges, three stone seats, two temple gates, 

 two lanterns, a hooded gateway leading 

 to the house and an umbrella tea-house, all 

 surrounded by a most unique and artistic 

 stone wall. 



A serpentine pathway leads up the moun- 

 tain side, past the crow of the canyon, back 

 of which two stone seats are all but hidden 

 among the trees and shrubbery, continuing 

 its varying course down the opposite side to 

 merge with the 350 feet of walks and step 



stones throughout the garden. Ihe entrance 

 from the public highway presents a fi\e-foot 

 open-work stone barrier, in the center of 

 which is a red cobble stone initial through 

 which the wayfarer mav see the green be- 

 yond and around which one must go before 

 entering the garden. 



Between the main branches of a spread- 

 ing catalpa trained to the outline of an im- 

 mense elks horn, a hammock is most appro- 

 priately hung, in which one may lie and 

 view hundreds of gold fish in the lake, of 

 all ages, sizes and colors, for a mature fish 

 may be golden spotted or an albino, but a 

 baby gold fish Is always black as night and 

 can be easily raised from a pair by only the 

 trouble necessary to remove the water hya- 

 cinth after the spawn Is deposited on Its 

 roots to a second pond empty of fish; for 

 gold fish will eat their own spawn. 



Even a two months fish will grow fat on 

 spawn and fish just hatched. 



Therefore it is best to use several ponds. Puddles will 

 answer for some, but one must only not associate too small 

 fish with too big mouths. 



The water "spattered" from our leak on the mountain 

 may find Its way by two sources to the outlet In the lower 

 lake. 



Some passes under an arched rock on to a perpendicular 

 sheet of glass faced by horizontal strips of glass, the strips 

 being held in position by a cement framework, all re- 

 sembling a window shutter, which breaks the water into 

 individual drops as It trickles from the side of one glass 

 strip to the center of the one below. 



An electric light placed back of the glass produces a 

 beautiful electric fountain effect, the whole appearance 

 being doubled by Its own reflection in the water below. 

 Other water crosses under the path into an open canal 

 encircling the umbrella and after crossing a miniature aque- 

 duct, drops by a second fall Into a Filipino, toko-bolo 

 shell, weighing 70 pounds and of such generous proportions 

 that it offers a home for several gold fish and a few water 

 plants. 



The excess of water from the shell forms a third water- 

 fall into two small shallow lakes for the birds to bathe In; 

 the same water finding Its way over a paved bottom of 

 small sea shells Into the lower lake by a fourth waterfall. 



As shallow cemented lakes do not winter well containing 

 water, provision is happily made for keeping the gold fish 



The walk leads from the upper to the lo\\er lake 



