its illustrations are so numerous and practical that 
you can easily find the type of pool that fits in your 
garden and learn how to design and make it. 
Informal Gardens 
By ,H. Stuart Ortloff $1.60 
17 illus.; 104 pages; 5*/2 x 8 inches 
Too often, American gardens strive for a dead flat 
surface secured at great expense, to the exclusion of 
a more charming solutions of the landscaping prob¬ 
lem. The informal treatment is frequently more 
beautiful, less difficult, and better suited to American 
homes. This book assists the gardener with sugges¬ 
tions for appropriate plants, colors, features, furniture, 
in short, all the requisites of the livable and beautiful 
informal garden. 
Patio Gardens 
By Helen M. Fox $2.50 
98 illus.; 250 pages; 8 x 10 inches 
This book contains usable ideas straight from the 
gardens of Spain described and illustrated so clearly 
that you can copy or adapt them and be sure the 
resulting effects will be in good taste. Contains 
accurate descriptions, pictures and plans of patios, 
pools, flowerpots, balconies, stairways, fountains, 
and wrought-iron work. 
California Gardens 
By Winifred Starr Dobyns $5.00 
210 illus.; 224 pages; 8% x I M/4 inches 
Decide now what you want for your own place! 
Arranged according to the predominating feature of 
each photograph, are shown: pools, fountains and 
cascades; formal and naturalistic gardens, rock and 
wall gardens; patio and pergolas; doorways, gate¬ 
ways, steps and balconies; and vistas, well-heads, 
potted plants, and sculpture. 
Chinese Garden Architecture 
By Edwin L. Howard $6.00 
51 illus.; 102 pages; 7 3/16 x I M/g inches 
You may well include, in your search for ideas, 
examples from the oldest school of landscape garden- 
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