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the magic inspiration coming of conserved waters at spring water 

 temperature. Let nobody conclude however that we propose to 

 let our lawn remain in its present condition. Despite possible 

 damage to our trees from cutting off a portion of their roots, we 

 propose to trench this lawn and make connection with the network 

 of trenches and drains to the north and west of the house, thus 

 surrounding the earth with hidden waters, warmer in winter and 

 cooler in summer than the atmosphere. 



The question will doubtless be asked, can homes everywhere be 

 thus environed ? Our answer is, yes, beyond doubt, especially 

 those located on hill and mountain sides, slopes and inclines; and 

 that too, regardless of subsoil. That this can be more economically 

 and readily done where firm clay or hard-pan subsoils are found, 

 than on those where these conditions do not exist, is true, but we 

 repeat our declaration that it can be done on other lands by the 

 use of substitutes, doing no more than facing the bottom of the 

 trench to the depth of two or three inches with clay, cement or flat 

 tile, thus permitting the trench to fill with water during rains. If 

 reserve is an object it can be accomplished by facing the lower 

 wall of the trench with like material within two feet of the surface, 

 and by arranging an inclined plane of kindred material, thus hold- 

 ing the waters in uniform currents of overflow from trench to 

 trench. Whatever the character of subsoil existing in lawns, door- 

 yards, gardens and grounds surrounding the dwelling, systems of 

 reservoirs, planes and inclines can be so arranged as to prove auto- 

 matic, and the waters kept moving in continuous flow, feeding and 

 watering grasses, plants and trees at deepest root, always in abun- 

 dance, and never in surfeit. 



Certain gross misrepresentations have been made and reports 

 set in circulation that we had made use of springs or other 

 natural and artificial sources of supply to secure results reached 



