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beautiful shrubs and climbers. On a tame sandy level, 

 where rocks of any kind are unknown, their introduction 

 in rockworks, nine times in ten, is more likely to give rise 

 to emotions of the ridiculous, than those of the sublime or 

 picturesque. 



Fountains are highly elegant garden decorations, rarely 

 seen in this country ; which is owing, not so much, we 

 apprehend, to any great cost incurred in putting them up, 

 or any want of appreciation of their sparkling and 

 enlivening effect in garden scenery, as to the fact that there 

 are few artisans here, as abroad, whose business it is to 

 construct and fit up architectural, and other jets d'eau. 



The first requisite, where a fountain is a desideratum, is 

 a constant supply of water, either from a natural source 

 or an artificial reservoir, some distance higher than the 

 level of the surface whence the jet or fountain is to rise. 



[Fig. 91. Design for a Fountain.] 



Where there is a pond, or other body of water, on a higher 

 level than the proposed fountain, it is only necessary to lay 

 pipes under the surface to conduct the supply of water to 



