Chap. IX. of Gardening. 



When you have feveral Spouts to play in a Garden^ as 

 four or five for Example, it is no way neceflary to lay five 

 or fix Pipes from the Referver, that is^ as many Pipes as 

 Spouts; this would be a needlefs Expence, You need lay 

 no more than two or three Pipes, but of fuch Proportion,, 

 ■that they be large enough to fupply all your Spouts with 

 Water, fo that they may play all together without fpoiling 

 and lowering one another : For Example, to make three 

 Water-Spouts play each half an Inch, or better, in Diame- 

 ter, you muft have a Pipe of fix Inches over ; for three 

 Spouts of a third of an Inch each, the Pipe muft be four 

 Inches. The fame Size of Pipe Ihould be continued till you 

 are over-againft the Bafons, or be diminillied proportionair ■ 

 -ly by Branches : Thus, upon a main Pipe of fix Inches, 

 you may lay Pipes of two Inches Diameter for Branches, 

 that the Water may be equally diftributed by thefe Drains. 



You fhould obferve, that at the Mouth of the Conduit- - 

 Pipe, that is, at the Out-let of the Referver, it ought to = 

 have two Inches more Diameter j as if it be a Four-inch; 

 Pipe, you fliould give it a Waftier and Opening of fix 

 Inches at the Bottom of the Referver, that the Entrance be-- 

 ing larger, it may ferve as a Tunnel to evacuate the Water 

 the fooner,,. and give the greater Preffure to the Spout. 



The Pipes being continued to the Bafons, Regard ftLOuld> 

 be had to fix a Cock there, of a Size agre.eable to the Dia- 

 ^jneter of the Conduit-Pipe; taking care,, that as much Wa^ 

 ter may pafs through the oval Hole of the Cock, and Bofs, , 

 as through the circular Hole of the Pipe : There are feve- 

 ral forts of Cocks, as thofe with a fquare Head, with 

 Branches, like the Head of a Crutch, and with two or three. 

 Vents for the Water, 



A PRETTY large round Piece of Lead, like a Collar^^ 

 fliould be foldered round the Pipe, in place of the Clay-. 

 Bottom, and Solid, of the Bafon, which it goes through^, 

 that the Water being ftopt by this Plate, may not follow 

 the Side of the Pipe, and fo be loft. 



The Pipes ought always to lie uncovered upon the Bot-^ 

 ^^x. of. a. Bafon, and never, be buried within it, that they. 



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