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placed to good advantage, in a decorative 
way, in respect to the general garden scheme. 
The swimming pools illustrated here not 
only speak more convincingly than words 
of the charm and usefulness of such fea¬ 
tures, but also will be found beneficially 
interesting for the suggestions they have to 
offer in the matter of design, construction 
and general treatment. 
The California pool shown at the bottom 
of this page is especially elaborate as to 
environing architecture. Entirely enclosing 
it is constructed an attrac¬ 
tive formal arrangement sug¬ 
gestive of the classic garden 
pergola. The plain, round 
columns, the low, neat rail¬ 
ing that links them together 
at the base and the coping 
effect that forms a continuous 
girder over their tops are of 
pure white; finishing the top 
in somewhat pergola fashion, 
and extending inward, is an 
open wood framework that is 
painted green. The pool is 
bordered, inside the columns 
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The pergola makes the best 
sort of a surrounding for 
a pool. Thus it has been 
used on this California 
estate, with a space re¬ 
served for an outdoor liv¬ 
ing room, which vines will 
eventually roof over 
An ideal spot for a bathing pool is a 
patio or an enclosed area where the 
house wings protect three sides of a 
corner of the garden, as in this New 
England country house 
Save for the house this California pool 
has no immediate privacy. It is, how¬ 
ever, the dominant feature of the garden 
scheme, adding color and light to the 
lawns and border plantings 
vay are quite unlimited; and, by proper 
liscrimination, it may be appropriately in- 
roduced as a feature of almost every garden 
scheme, from informal to the strictly formal. 
A pool large enough for swimming and 
aathing, and actually to be so used, is, 
lowever, only possible as a feature of the 
:ountry home, or of the home surrounded 
ay fairly extensive grounds, located in a 
suburban community. This, however, does 
not necessarily restrict it only to the wealthy, 
for the pool itself may naturally be greatly 
varied as to both size and 
instruction cost, and the 
sum expended upon its sur¬ 
roundings can be especially 
varied. 
As to location, the pool, 
first of all, should be con¬ 
veniently accessible. And, 
placed somewhere in the rear 
of the house and preferably 
not more than a few steps 
distant, it should also be so 
located as to have a certain 
degree of privacy. Naturally, 
the use of trees and shrub¬ 
bery, or of something in the 
way of garden architecture, 
will very materially help to 
secure for it this desired se¬ 
clusion, but the matter of 
location nevertheless deserves 
to be carefully considered in 
this respect. And lastly, it is 
important that the pool be 
