
Pool Margins 
and 
Backgrounds 
What could be more fitting as a back- 
ground for a naturalistic pool than a per- 
ennial border which will blossom through- 
Here’s a border, de- 
out the whole season? 
designed just for the purpose. 
Substitution List 
You may not care for the flowers listed, and many are hard 
to get. We suggest these substitutes : 
Ajuga Reptans — 8 for $1.00 
spelues Italica — 3 Pacific Delphin- 
ums 
A rchied Myosotodiflora — Pink For- 
get-Me-Not 
Aquilegia Coerulea — Scott Elliott 
Aquilegias 
Arabis Alpina, White — 4 White 
Violets 
Aubretia Hybrids — 2 Hardy Ver- 
b 
ena 
Callirhoe — 6 Red Violas 
Centaurea Macrocephala — 2 Heliop- 
sis Apollo 
Chrysanthemum “Amber Beauty” — 
Yellow Fellow 
Coreopsis — 2 Heliopsis Apollo 
Dicentra Eximia — 5 Sea Pink 
(Price 5 for $1.65) 
Geum ‘Mrs. Bradshaw’ — 8 Astilbe 
Gypsophila Panicu-— 
lata — 1 for 45c 




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Helenium “‘Riverton Gem” 
—1 Azaleamum 
Summer Gold 
Hemerocallis ““Kwanso’’— 
Day Lily Goldini 
Heuchera Brizoides—3 Maid- 
en Blush or Rose Unique 
Carnations 
Lilium Philippinence — Es- 
state Lily (8 for $4.15) 
Lobelia Cardinalis — 4 Red Violas 
Myosotis Palustrus— Pink Forget- 
Me-Nots 
Papaver Nudicaule—4 Yellow Violas 
Phlox Boxes Queen — Phlox Salmon 
Glo 
Phlox “Maid Marion” — Phlox Blu- 
ette 
Sedum Sieboldi — 6 Creeping Baby’s 
Breath (6 for $1.85) 
How to Build a Lily Pool 
S‘tol0’ WIDE, AS DESIRED ee 


NOTE? OVERFLOW PIPE CAN 
BEUNSCREWED TO DRAIN POOL 




USE RATHER ORY 
Co OF CONCRETE 
5” fo 6" THICK 

TO LOWER LEVEL, SEWER, 
CELLAR, ORAIN, ORY WE. 3 
OR CISTERW 
Se LICL, 
On pages 14-15 you will find detailed in- 
structions for constructing a pool. 
we show you how to provide proper drainage 
for the pool. 
come just where you want the surface of the pool to be. 
thing is simple. 
1. Dig hole. D4 
2. Put pipes in place. 
. Spread 3” outer layer 












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Note: Squares represent 
square feet. Figure in circle 
shows number of plants for 
garden this size. Figures in 
pairs, aproximate months of 
bloom — 5-6 — May-June. 
Yellow 
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At left 
The top of the pipe should 
The whole 
(See below.) 
Spread 3” inner layer concrete. 
6. With broom, brush wet mixture of sand 
and cement over pool to fill crevices. 
Use 2 parts sand to 1 cement.) 
concrete. 
Simple Pool Construction — Cross-Section 
of Concrete Pool 4, 
Lay down chicken wire. 
7. When dry, paint with blue “Under- 
water Emanel” paint. 
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