Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 May 1924, p. 20

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WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924 from what appears to be a hidden spring which bubbles out of a stone pocket, .....;> ~ .A trickles over the stone ledges until it "llte Llc.J loses its individuality in the quiet pool below. The water may in turn come A. from the mouth of a grotesque set in thel .C ~ . .C the garden wall into a stone basin over &T the rim of which it clingingly falls to the larger pools below. ~ 'f ~HJN~ ~~n\.r M·I:.~ The overflow should be so designed ·"i;ii:iiiii~ !!![L~v~:V)j.}~~:'-l~..U~r~.l~lU~J.~·~:.::..J!!!!f!!!!::!J that it permits the maintaining of a uni· form level, the opening being screened I to keep out the leaves or foreign objects and yet so attached that it can be unscrewed and the pool drained and cleaned in the f al!. Whether your mood be happy or sad, rollicking or quiet, there is a water-feaAmong the gardens o.f the v.:orld i.n In the case of the smaller pools, with ture for your garden, which can change few exceptions, notably large lily ponds which water is ever present we tmmedithe blue sky to a brighter hue, can drive ately think of the cascades, water-falls, sorrow away and bring to your day a where the banks may 'be of puddled pools and basins, secret fountain jets clay, the material best adapted to their which sprayed the unwary passer-by, joy and thrill which it has missed. It matters not your age, for gardens construction is Portland cement con- fountains of beautiful sculptural perfecwith water therein are no respecter of crete, and the whole pool should be re- tion and water-organs of old Italy. It persons. They rather bring youth back inforced to prevent its cracking in the is there that the use of water reached to the aged, and stimulate the bubbling heaving effects of frost action in this its height with elaborate pumping and '- jew of childhood, which is seemingly climate. If you do not care for the hydraulic systems to enable the estate seeking someone or something which smooth cement surface, it can be masked owner to use the same water over and is in tune. We are not talking of flow- by a weathered stone or even by a rub- over again, pumping from the lower levels to the higher from whence by gravity the water appeared and re-appeared on ·'the terraced gardens il\'to which the hillsides were divided. Space docs not permit of a discussion of the artificia l lakes, their design and construction, nor yet of swimming-pools and a myriad of other uses to which water in motion can be put. Perhaps you have received some little inspiration, enough so that your little family may yet have their gold-fish pool, about the iris-lined borders of which many a family council has been ·held, and in the waters of which the dancing flames of the camp-fire arc silently reflected to the accompaniment of the merry vocies of the children at a marshmallow roast. CUSHING SMITH, Landscape Architect. Wilmette, May 25th, 1924. LANn C"'\.J:-' n.E, Drp· nTMrNT Bedding Plants Vincaa English Ivy, etc. Porch and Window Boxes Filled FLOWER AND Vegetable Plants of all kinda. TifE USE OF WATER IN THE GARDEN Edward·, Flori·t 917 Willow St., WINNETKA Phone Winnetka 885 Driveways Built and Repaired. Will fix up y~ur whole place in No. 1 condition and care for it during season. Call Winnetka GO 'or Gl·coe 1015 S. BISETH Landac:ape Gardener Linus S eted Aa EVERGREENS PERENNIALS SHRUBS-TREES Phone Winnetka 1549 Every Winnetka Landscape Co. M. J. Sullivan and Son GRADING SEEDING LAWNS TRIMMING FERTILIZER BLACK DIRT MANURE er or formal garden$ only, but of in- hie wall. Slate in its varied colors is .formal lawn area!l where there may be also well adapted to usc on the coping -room for a small bird-bath, or for a or top edge of the pool. wa~er-fall or rivulet, along the shores of For the more forma l pools in the ~htch th~ butter-cups vie with the iris Italian French or English gardens 10 absor~m.g the treasure~ moisture_. where' the mansion is of stone or of Why ts H that as a chtld we enJoyed brick with stone trim a cut stone pool most the spot known to us al?ne, wh~re should be preferably' constructed with upon an. old log across a qmet flowmg carefully cut stone coping in keeping st~eam, In the heart . of the woods, alone with the architectural character of ..the With nature and w1th God, we fi shed, house. dozed, swam, or watched the old turtle In shape and in size the pool must or the frogs as they sunned themselves on the river's bank. This, the earliest be designed to fit the size of the lot, the form of water-garden should be emulated- landscape plan which has been studied, more than has been the case in the past. and the use to which it is to be put. If T o reproduce a spring-fed brook in a for wading, then it should be shallow at naturalistic setting, is a task for a life- least at one end; if for fish or for wattime, and is a work of art in the crea- er-lilies or for both , its depth will not tion of which the efforts of even a Corot exceed eighteen to twenty-four inches ; are but amateurish. Too often with the if fo r swimming, a void too great a depth pliable changing materia ls with which on account of danger to the children of the neighborhood, and avoid further any we are working, we fai l to realize the jutting rock formations on which the secrets of the natural physical phenomena, t~ physi~-graphical and geological child may be injured. The water may be introduced into the fo rmatiOns wh tch must be studied and aspired to, as they are spread out before pool in a great variety of ways. A our wondering eyes in our native land- fountain of a single jet, falling back ac:ape. into a thousand brilliant drops and ri pF or a small pood for gold-fish or even ples as it strikes the pool surface is the any pool of _ a verage size the water should simplest form. T he pool may be fed be . m motion to insure its freshness. W tthout that precaution the pool becomes t++++++++++++++++++++++++t' only a mosquito-breeding pond and a JERRY KUCERA'S : menace to the health of the entire neigh- · · !>orhood. ~ater-li lies seem to do better + Perennial Gardea at · m a sluggtsh stream where the crowns : : of the plants are not over twelve to fif- · 1050 Oak Street, : teen inches below the water surface. The + Cor. 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