The Carden Magazine, August, 1920 
357 
Built with grilled openings to house 
a phonograph, the above might be a 
tool-house 
(At the left.) A close-up of the vases 
of the preceding page, and their ever- 
greens 
Reproducing an ancient Byzantine 
design, concrete also provides this 
well-head's setting (Right) 
This is especially necessary for large pieces such as benches, sun 
dials or fountains. A concrete foundation is useful in this con- 
nection and need not be in evidence in the least, for it fulfils 
its purpose if placed sufficiently underground to be covered with 
sod. To make such a foundation excavate to the proper size 
and depth and fill the opening with concrete mixed in the propor- 
tion of one part cement, two and one half parts sand and five 
parts broken stone or pebbles. Before this foundation has 
fully hardened the ornament is set upon it and all is carefully 
leveled to bring it to final position. 
Garden walls of concrete are built upon a similar foundation 
whether they are poured into forms and reinforced, or con- 
structed of concrete blocks. In either case a surface finish is of 
course required to bring the finished wall up to the standard of 
texture and appearance demanded; in the first instance to 
remove the film which is characteristic of the material when it 
emerges from a mold, in the second to conceal the blocks. A 
skilled worker in synthetic stone is able, by mixing it to differ- 
ent consistencies, to apply it as plaster and give it practically 
any surface character desired. 
WHO LOVES A GARDEN SOONER OR LATER LOVES A GARDEN WALL, TOO! 
With such possibilities in the substitution of cement for brick and stone and the labor that these involve, as this wall in the garden of Mr. 
Henry Proctor, at Phillip’s Beach, Mass., demonstrates, this first essential of the garden need not be delayed to become its last feature 
