LESSON 26 
WELL—HEAD 
HIS lesson is intended to give the student prac- 
tice in the design of architectural details. Such 
features have to be provided in connection with 
many works in landscape gardening. If they are 
large or elaborate they should be designed by a 
) competent architect. If they involve plastic fig- 
ures or groupings, a sculptor should be em- 
ployed. In a large majority of cases, however, simple details of 
this character can be worked out by the landscape gardener. Much 
depends on his taste and skill in placing such garden ornaments, 
in constructing them to the most effective scale and in making sure 
that they correspond with their garden surroundings in style and 
treatment. 
Statement 
A well-head or curb is required on every well in regular use. 
Perhaps it is true that in a majority of cases, under present day prac- 
tice, the well-head consists only of a pump surmounted by a wind- 
mill on its tower. Admittedly well-heads of the kind illustrated in 
the present lesson are not now in very general use. Nevertheless 
it is the pleasant fashion in many distinguished gardens to retain 
old wells and to decorate them with well designed curbs. These 
may be designed in a great variety of styles, a few of which are 
illustrated herewith. 
Problems 
The student should first copy some of the designs here shown. 
Copies may be made in.pencil or ink, preferably the latter, and 
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