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Fountains are a special and most important feature 

 of a garden and here is a suggestion made by Henry A. 

 Bright in The English Flower Garden: 



"One of the greatest ornaments in a garden is a 

 fountain, but many fotmtains are curiously ineffective. 

 A fountain is most effective when it leaps high in the 

 air, and you can see it against a background of green 

 foliage. To place a fountain among new flower beds, 

 and then to substitute small fancy jets that take the 

 shape of a cup, or trickle over in a basin of goldfish, 

 or toy with a gilded ball, is to do all that is possible 

 to degrade it. The real charm of a fountain is when 

 you come upon it in some grassy glade of the 'pleas- 

 aunce' when it seems as though it sought, in the 

 strong rush of its waters, to vie with the tall boles 

 of the forest trees that surround it." 



Such was the fountain of Leigh Hunt's story of 

 Rimini which shot up beneath the shade of- darksome 

 pines. 



And twixt their shafts you saw the water bright 

 Which through the tops glimmered with showering light. 



This is very pertinent to the subject, as it is sel- 

 dom that a fountain is met which is both designed and 

 located properly, particularly when used in the garden. 



But turning from the spell of these Italian gardens 



and their unquestionable beauty and charm we must 



not forget to recall the natural effects we have been 



considering, and allow ourselves to yield once more to 



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