PATINT OFFICE 
Volume XXIV 
August, 1913 
Number 2 
Water Gardens for Every Place 
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INEXPENSIVE POOLS AND PONDS 
THEIR SITUATION AND MAKING 
H AVE you any recollection of the 
infinite delight you had as a 
child playing at damming up some 
stream? Perhaps you spent a day in 
diverting a little runlet of muddy 
water with sticks and stones and sod 
until at last you actually had a lake 
on which boats could sail, a glorious 
Niagara and some caverns through which 
the stream ran, which, though not as ex¬ 
tensive as those where “Alf, the sacred 
river, ran,” were certainly more satisfy¬ 
ing to you. I have never gotten over this 
delight at playing with water — in those 
days they called it, as they angrily es¬ 
corted me by the ear to dinner, “mussing 
in the mud.” Even now I find inexpressi¬ 
ble delight in diverting water into my 
garden and find that with a little inge¬ 
nuity there are greater opportunities for 
pleasure than those I have mentioned 
above. 
When hot weather comes, a water gar¬ 
den is absolutely a necessary adjunct to 
any country place. It need not be so ex¬ 
tensive, but if any urging of mine may 
avail, make some form of water garden 
and add to it as time and opportunity 
allow. 
There are certain special features of 
the water garden that you may have 
by Arthur W. Dean 
Photographs by Thos. W. Sears and Others 
The butterflies and birds, dogs and children all 
find delight in the garden pool 
THE BEST WATER LILIES—HOW 
TO PLANT AND CARE FOR THEM 
for your own delectation. There is 
the still, reflecting surface of a pool or 
basin wherein the August sky lies blue 
and cool and the forms of trees are 
stretched in horizontal green shadows 
across it. There is the splash of fall¬ 
ing water, tossed heavenward from 
the fountain that sounds as it falls a 
song of coolness. There is the trickling 
stream that meanders between moss- 
covered rocks and murmurs through tiny 
grottoes a seductive melody. There is 
the formal pool with its stone or mason¬ 
ry coping and its marble seats, and then 
there is the slow, winding streamlet that 
runs through bogs into a still pond where 
grow water lilies in profusion. Perhaps 
you may not have all these water fea¬ 
tures, but aspire toward some, at least. 
August loses its dread, if you attain 
them. I fixed as my ideal the picture 
which is reproduced at the head of this 
article. Above, there is the white water 
tossed high. It runs in cascades down 
into a great, basin, where in places it is 
quiet > ,efiau|$r for water plants. Then 
tb£r'e is*a forjg marble trough wherein all 
th*e° architectural ' beauty and the falling 
water itself are reflected In an humble 
way and simple form similar effects can 
be provided by almost every country 
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