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calls for some skill. It should either appear as na- 

 ture's own production, as though man had done 

 nothing to it, or, if some visible work of man's is 

 necessary, this should seem to serve the spring and 

 be subordinate to it. Springs that have sufficient 

 fall and volume may be valuable as sources of water 

 supply, either through gravity when at a sufficiently 

 high elevation, or when lower by means of hydraulic 

 rams or other pumping devices. 



Some shade goes well with a spring, the two to- 

 gether producing a grateful effect of coolness on a 

 hot summer day. Overhanging lindens, birches, hem- 

 locks, alders, red maples and red-branched dogwoods 

 seem appropriate for producing shade, but any tree 

 or shrub leaning out from a bank immediately above 

 a spring makes an effect which an artist w r ould like 

 to sketch. A spring may give individuality to a 

 home, a park, a city square, a country road or a city 

 street. 



When the water supply is artificial and the water 

 is forced from manifestly artificial forms, the spring 

 becomes a fountain. Fountains of many different 

 forms have been used from time immemorial and 

 often make delightful features of buildings and ter- 

 races. The beauty of a spring, however, would seem 



