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They were fond of rustic arbors,— we have the 
form ; but galvanized wire works furnish a sub- 
stitute, for wood, and also material for encir- 
clings of the basket flower beds upon our lawns. 
Our numerous and improved species and varie- 
ties of climbers, and almost endless kinds of bed- 
ding plants or ornamental foliage make our 
fantasies far more pleasing than those of the 
can be made beautiful. Fountains with fish 
make admirable embellishments. Water birds 
make our larger ponds and lakes picturesquely 
beautiful. Decaying trees, with holes in their 
stems, are turned to account; ornamental plants 
set in the holes, often make unique oddities 
Large old logs of trees, lying in some unsuspected 
nooks, hollowed like longboats, then filled with 
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