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here and there along walks and paths, which could be 
spurted upon the unsuspecting promenader and wet 
him down pleasantly, for his host’s great delight. 
Benches and seats are hardly less nor more than a 
garden necessity and convenience, hence not to be in¬ 
cluded in the playthings; but statuary, “dyalls” and 
urns were sometimes of a spirit in keeping with the 
gardener’s jovial or imaginative mood. Particularly 
were statues chosen for their appropriateness to the site 
they graced. JEolus was put upon a hilltop, where he 
might conveniently exercise his dominion over the 
winds; Vallentia stood within the vale, Rusina in the 
flower garden; Ceres, as goddess of all growing vege¬ 
tation, Pomona, the special goddess of fruit, or the 
lovely guardian nymphs, the Hesperides, were sta¬ 
tioned in the orchards; swift-footed Mercury the guide 
and god of eloquence, naked young Harpocrates, and 
Angerona, the still, sweet goddess of silence, cautious 
finger on lips, dwelt among the closest walks and pri¬ 
vate recesses; while Aristseus, who alone knows and 
teaches their ways, kept watch among the bees. 
These, by the way, many of them—“a store of bees” 
—were always as much a part of the garden’s equip¬ 
ment as the plants; and both curious and simple con¬ 
trivances for birds were everywhere, developed accord¬ 
ing to the fancy of the moment and the most con¬ 
venient material—as witness the grim death’s heads 
set atop the posts, earlier told about. 
