146 Landscape Gardening 



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 enliven- 

 ing 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. 

 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 

 the required spot; but where there is no such head of water, 

 the latter must be provided from a reservoir artificially 

 prepared, and kept constantly full. 



There are tw r o very simple and cheap modes of effecting 

 this, which we shall lay before our readers, and one or the 

 other of which may be adopted in almost every locality. 

 The first is to provide a large flat cistern of sufficient size, 

 which is to be placed under the roof in the upper story of 

 one of the outbuildings, the carriage-house for example, 

 and receive its supplies from the water collected on the 

 roof of the building; the amount of water collected in this 

 way from a roof of moderate size being much more than 

 is generally supposed. The second is to sink a well of 

 capacious size (where such is not already at command) in 

 some part of the grounds where it will not be conspicuous, 

 and over it to erect a small tower, the top of which shall 

 contain a cistern and a wind-mill; which being kept in 

 motion by the wind more or less almost every day in sum- 

 mer, will raise a sufficient quantity of water to keep the 

 reservoir supplied from the well below. In either of these 

 cases, it is only necessary to carry pipes from the cistern 



