90 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
effective provision made in one garden that I 
have known of. Such a water holder, mounted 
on a rough pile of stones and buried to its 
brim in vines, is as picturesque as a very much 
more elaborate pool, and is of course lighter 
and easier to handle than one of stone or ce- 
ment. It may be affixed very easily to a single 
post, if an elevated position is preferable for 
it. It is a bath only for the most informal type 
of garden, however, a cottage garden, in the 
true meaning of the word. Elsewhere some- 
thing more distinctive may be needed. A sim- 
ple cement basin comes nearer to the require- 
ments of the average suburban grounds, without 
being in the least pretentious. One may be 
made by pouring the cement into a “ mold ” 
of burlap, doubled and tacked into the top 
of a barrel. The dip of the cloth takes on 
a very graceful form, and its folds imprint 
melon-like ridges on the outside of the basin 
that vary its surface pleasantly. 
Before the cement hardens the inside should 
be worked out and hollowed and smoothed by 
hand; and when the cement has finally set — 
after an interval of about eight hours — the 
barrel should be turned on its side and the basin 
tipped out carefully, bottom side up. Then it 
must be thoroughly wet down with a sprinkling 
