390 Old Time Gardens 
carefully thought-out gardens, the garden statuary 
is a thing of beauty and often of meaning, as the 
figure shown on page 84. Usually our statues are 
ofmarble,some- 
timesa Japanese 
bronze is seen. 
In the old 
black letter 
Gardener s Lab- 
yrinth , a very 
full description 
is given of old 
modes of water- 
ing a garden. 
There was a 
primitive and 
verylimitedsys- 
tem of irriga- 
tion, the water 
being raised by 
“ well-swipes ” ; 
there were very 
handy punch- 
eons, or tubs on 
wheels, which 
could be trun- 
dled down the 
garden walk. 
There was also a formidable “ Great Squirt of Tin,” 
which was said to take “ mighty strength ” to handle, 
and which looked like a small cannon ; with it was 
an ingenious bent tube of tin by which the water 
Iron-work in Court of Colt Mansion, Bristol, 
Rhode Island. 
