Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1919 — CONSTRUCT POOL IN GARDEN [ARTICLE]

CONSTRUCT POOL IN GARDEN

In Added Attractiveness It Is Worth All the Time and Trouble That It Entails. A very Interesting and attractive garden pool can be made with a little hard work and at a small expense, and where the garden is sufficiently large the pool adds wonderfully to the artistic make up. In an amateur’s garden recently the owner was caught in the set of putting on the finishing touches of the pool and its decorations. The garden was in the rear of the house and the pool was in the left hand corner at the rear. Not in the extreme rear corner, •as back of it was a bed of iris arranged in semicircular form in front, bordering a gravel walk. Back of this was a bed of peonies and the corner was to be filled later with salvia, backed with cannas. The gardener had -dug the pool himself. It was about ten feet in diameter and two feet six inches deep. In the bottom stones had been laid and the bottom and side covered with cement. A rockery was made of a lot of large stones encountered in digging, with a few brought in from a neighboring field to complete the work. The rockery was not in the center, but to one side at the rear of the pool. An iron pipe led off to the gutter in the rear for an overflow. The bottom was covered with odd stones that had been selected for the purpose on various motor trips in the country and gave a natural appearance to the pool. A few handfuls of frogs’ spawn had been gathered and placed in the pool, ferns and rushes had been planted and water lilies ware to be set out later, after which a few gold fish will be added. There is no fountain or inlet to the pool; the water is supplied by the lawn hose. 'this idea can be followed by gardeners, who find that the pool and bog garden not only adds to the beauty and interest of the garden, but it is a source of considerable pleasure as well.