Travel Dreams & Memories - Garden Fountains

Each year at this time, I long to be outdoors in a garden somewhere. The movement & sound & sparkle of garden fountains mesmerize me.  I am hiding in a few of these photos.
The Alnwick Garden, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Butchart Gardens, Vancover Island, British Columbia, Canada
The Alnwick Garden, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Buxton Memorial Fountain, Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster, England
Ammonite Fountain, Covent Garden, London, England
Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia
Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia

Fountain in the Espace Massena, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence, France
Barnsdale Gardens, Rutland. England
Butchart Gardens, Vancover Island, British Columbia, Canada
Chihuly at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
The Alnwick Garden, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Château de Villandry, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Butchart Gardens, Vancover Island, British Columbia, Canada
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.'s, Bishop's Garden at the National Cathedral, Washingto, D. C.
Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
Chihuly Fountain, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia
Cleveland Botanical Gardens
Dallas Arboretum, Texas
Chihuly Fountain, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, Kensington Gardens, London, England
East Garden, Getty Villa, Malibu, California
Edinburgh Castle in Princes Street Gardens, Scotland

Fountain in the Espace Massena, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence, France

Linderhof Palace Germany of Bavaria’s last ruling monarch, King Ludwig II
First Lady’s Water Garden, U. S. Botanic Garden, Washington D.C.
Fountain in the Central Garden of the Conservatory Gardens, Central Park, NYC

Neptune Fountain at Linderhof Palace Germany of Bavaria’s last ruling monarch, King Ludwig II
Downtown Fort Worth, Texas

Neptune Fountain at Linderhof Palace Germany of Bavaria’s last ruling monarch, King Ludwig II
Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Texas

Fountain of Apollo, The Run of the Sun, Versailles, France
French Garden's Untermyer Fountain of Three Dancing Maidens, Central Park Conservatory Gardens, NYC
Garden Marco Polo, near the Place Camille-Jullian, Fontaine des Quatre Parties du Monde (Fountain of the Four Parts of the World). Paris, France.
Garden of Villa Olmo on Como Lake, Italy

Hellbrunn Castle, Salzburg, Austria
Huntington Library Museum Entry Garden, California

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kew Gardens, Richmond, England
Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania
Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France

Norfolk Botanical Gardens, Virginia
Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin

Peace Gardens, Sheffield, England
Petergof - Lower Gardens, St. Petersburg, Russia

Petergof - Lower Gardens, St. Petersburg, Russia

Petergof - Upper Gardens fountain, St Petersburg, Russia
P'tit Luxembourg Fountain, Paris, France
South Garden fountain, Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England
Villa d'Este, Tivoli, (Rome) Italy
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Belmont, North Carolina
South Garden fountain, Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England
Sunken Garden Fountain - Bouchard Gardens, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Villa d'Este, Tivoli, (Rome) Italy
US Botanic Garden, Washington DC
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida
Villa d'Este, Tivoli, (Rome) Italy
Villa Antoine, France
Villa d'Este, Tivoli, (Rome) Italy.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida

Walk of a Thousand Fountains, Villa de Este, Tivolia, Italy

1863 - US Women as Flower Girls.

Flowers are the mementoes of an earthly paradise. They are said to be “the alphabet of angels, whereby they write mysterious things”- the mysteries of God's love & goodness. Earth would be a wilderness without them. 

Girls sell flowers most profitably at opera houses, theatres, & other places of amusement. They buy of those who devote themselves to the raising of flowers, & arrange them into bouquets. A number dispose of flowers on Broadway; &, summer before last, I observed a French woman at the Atlantic ferry selling bouquets to people waiting for the boat. 

A florist told me he disposes of flowers to girls who make up bouquets & sell them. One of them pays $500 rent for her room. It yields a handsome profit when a person has a good stand. He would like a stand at the opera house, but a great many others are looking forward to it. Some pay for the privilege, .others obtain it by being known to the managers. 

I was told by a man who supplies bouquets that he pays to florists from $8 to $10 a day for flowers, & then makes up his own bouquets. I have been told that at some hotels in Germany, girls pass around the table at dinner, & give bouquets. Such recipients as feel disposed, pay a small sum. 

The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work by Virginia Panny Published Boston, MA. by Walker, Wise & Company. 1863

To read about women's changing roles in the 19th century. see:
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Democratic Experience. New York:Random House, 1973.
Clinton, Catherine. The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1984.
Cott, Nancy. A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Cott Nancy. History of Women in the United States, Part 6, Working the Land. New York: K. G. Saur, 1992.
Degler, Carl. At Odds: Women and the Family from Revolution to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Green, Harvey. The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.
Juster, Norton. So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America 1865-1895. New York: The Viking Press, 1979.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982
Mintz, Stephen and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1988.
Ryan, Mary P. Womanhood in America front he Colonial Times to the Present. New York: F. Watts, 1983.
Smith-Rosenberg, Caroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York Pantheon Books, 1982.
Welter, Barbara. Dimity Convictions : the American Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Athens : Ohio University Press, 1976.