PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



of a large portion of Long Island, by the way, makes 

 an artesian well a pretty sure way of securing a con- 

 tinual stream of fresh water. 



"Originally the water rushed up into an un- 

 adorned stand-pipe, connected at the top with another 

 stand-pipe through which the water flowed down with 

 some force into a nearly horizontal drive-pipe run- 

 ning to a ram hidden in a pit. There is a nine-foot 

 fall from the top of the stand-pipe to the ram, giving 

 enough force to pump the water to a reservoir tank 

 on a hill of one hundred and five feet elevation. 

 From the reservoir is obtained the water for the en- 

 tire place. The supply is unremitting all the year, 

 thirty-five gallons flowing to the minute when the tide 

 is low in the bay, and ninety gallons at high tide. The 

 tide probably backs the water up in some natural 

 outlet, causing the difference in quantity and 

 pressure. 



' ' Such a system was entirely satisfactory except 

 for one thing the stand-pipes were an eyesore. Mr. 

 Trotter conceived the idea of converting them into 

 a thing of beauty a fountain. Around the base he 

 built a concrete basin three feet deep, with an over- 

 flow into a little brook. The stand-pipes he sur- 

 rounded with a pillar of rolled copper, filled with 

 cement. At the top he placed a copper jardiniere, 

 picked up at an auction sale, first punching a hole in 

 the bottom. The supply pipe now empties into this 



