FOUNTAINS. 



Figure 24. 



Ornamental Fountains are of various kinds. The two drooping fountains 

 represented at figures 24 and 25 are neat, and amongst the most pleasing and 

 suitable, especially for placing near the house, or in any dress scenery. Of 

 course they will have to be finished in the style of the house, whether 

 Gothic or Grecian. I should never recommend a fountain of any design to 



be lofty, but from six to twelve feet high, 

 according to the body of the water. 

 When too much elevated, the streamlets, 

 which ought to fall regularly, are more 

 liable to be thrown out of order. It is, 

 indeed, the regularity of the streams 

 from the basins, together with a perpen- 

 dicular boiling jet, which constitutes, to 

 my mind, the very essence of effect in a 

 fountain. Water should never be per- 

 mitted to fall from off the basins of a 

 fountain, now in agitated splashes and 

 then in more gentle streams. It is dis- 

 cordant either with order or design. An 

 instance of what I mean was shown in the two fountains in Trafalgar-square, 

 London, as they appeared in 1848. If the water of these fountains were only 

 allowed to rise six or eight feet from the orifice with the whole body of water, 

 and regulated in the pressure so as to avoid flickering or jerking about, I have 

 no doubt a proper and good effect would be produced. 



Numerous devices may be made to screw upon the end of the outletting 

 pipe of ornamental fountains. Amongst the best are the umbrella, convol- 

 vulus, tulip, and Catharine wheel. But, in my opinion, the grandest effect of 

 all is produced when a column of water is allowed to boil or rise boldly 

 and freely out of the whole width of the pipe, which should appear about six 



