THE CULINARY GARDEN. 



vrater should be supplied in the greatest abundance, and the 

 .disposal of it should be so regulated, that it may be conve- 

 niently and expeditiously applied to every part. This is an 

 improvement in gardening, which, although long acknow- 

 ledged, has been apparently little attended to. There is no 

 situation in which water might not be had, and in many, with 

 very little trouble or expense. Mr. John Hay, as a garden 

 architect, has attended more to this important object than any 

 other designer of the present day ; and the good effects of his 

 system are exemplified in many gardens laid out by him in dif- 

 ferent parts of Scotland. The gardens of Lord Roseberry and 

 Viscount Duncan, designed by that artist, are described in the 

 Edinburgh Encyclopedia, art. Horticulture, as having water 

 supplied to them from a reservoir, situated on an eminence at 

 a considerable height above the garden walls. Around the 

 whole garden, four inches below the level of the surface of 

 the ground, a groove of between two and three inches in 

 depth has been formed in the walls, to receive ^ three-quarter 

 inch pipe, for the purpose of conducting the water. Apertures 

 of two feet and a half high, and ten inches wide, and about 

 fifty feet distant fi'om each other, are made in the wall, in which 

 a cock is placed, so that on turning the handle to either side 

 of the wall, the water issues fi'om that side. The nozzles of 

 the cocks have screws on each side, to which a leathern pipe 

 is attached at pleasure, with a brass cock and director ; roses, 

 pierced with holes of different sizes, being fitted to the latter. 

 By this contrivance, all the trees, both on the inside and the 

 outside of the wall, can be effectually watered and washed in 

 a very short space of time, and the whole process attended 

 with very little trouble. One jnan may go over the whole in 

 two hours ; at the same time, the borders, and a very consi- 

 derable part of the compartments, can be watered with the 

 greatest ease, as the occasion may require. The convenience 

 and utility of this plan must, at once, be perceived by every 

 practical horticulturist. 



It is almost unnecessary to add, that river, pond, or rain- 

 water, is to be preferred for all purposes of garden culture, to 

 that which is procm-ed fi'om springs or deep wells, unless the 

 water of the latter has been collected into a reservoir freely 



