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Irrigation and Drainage 



devoted to sewage irrigation, an effort is being made to leach in 

 a concrete way how thoroughly purified sewage water may be 

 made by irrigation, and what luxuriant growths may spring from 

 nearly sterile sands. Fig. 126 is a view within the garden, 

 where grapes are growing on the left, with dwarf pears and 

 apples on the right, while in the center is a trench of water 

 cress grown for market in filtered sewage, the trench being at 

 the foot of one of the drainage lines leading the filtered water 



Fig. 126. Sewage irrigation, model garden, Paris. 



to the Seine. So clear was this water that it had the sparkling 

 brilliancy of that from the purest springs, and outside the 

 garden women and children came with their buckets and filled 

 them for use at home. Inside, the superintendent keeps a glass, 

 and insists that every visitor shall taste and convince himself 

 how sweet and pure the water is. Here and further out, at 

 Gennevilliers, the lands are laid out and divided much like 

 village lots, where homes, with their vegetable, fruit and flower 



