THOMAS, Mrs. Rose Haig.   STONE GARDENS.   With Practical Hints On The Paving & Planting Of Them. Together With Thirteen Original Designs And A Plan Of The Vestal Virgin's Atrium In Rome.    London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent,   1905.          An unusual book of designs, printed in colors, for formal gardens to be laid out in flat stone. The planted spaces within these mostly geometric designs were intended for the display of "many tiny plants that would be hidden in the herbaceous border, lost in a rock garden." Some of the plans incorporate pools or water tanks. Design details for stone garden benches are also shown.   Folio (36.5 x 26.5 cm); 12 pp. + 14 ff. of plate descriptions + 14 color lithographed plans + 2 photographic half-tones + 1 black ad white plan.            Original cloth-backed boards with lithographed cover title and color illustration; boards worn and foxed, with small repair in upper corner; frontispiece tissue foxed. $375.00

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