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Ornamental Fountains. 
Fig. 9— Price $85. 
This is a beautiful fountain, its general effect pleasing, and makes 
a very handsome appearance in a garden or door-yard. The base 
is two feet and three inches in diameter. Height to top of the 
pan four feet; whole height five and a half feet. It is chaste, 
neat and lively; and the flow over the basin, and the centre stream, 
make a very pretty display. 
In getting up these fountains, Mr. Farnam is certainly entitled 
to great credit; they would do honor to any country and any 
artist, as displaying a taste and skill which richly entitles him to 
the countenance and patronage of his countrymen. 
The examining committee in their report to the American In- 
stitute in 1841, in speaking of one of Mr. Farnam's fountains 
which was exhibited in the Horticultural rooms, and for which 
they awarded him a gold medal, said, " This superb article might 
truly be said to form the climax of garden ornaments. It con- 
sists of an extensive and lovely basin of clear water, in which 
