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under the spout of the pump, with a pipe 
reaching to the ground, and laid on under 
ground up the hill, and bent upwards, so as 
to deliver the water at the top of the tank. 
This pipe should be iron, well secured, and 
about the same bore as the spout of the pump; 
the column or straight pipe from the bottom 
of the tub to the ground, may be a three-inch 
one; the only labour required here then would 
be at this pump. We do not pretend to save 
the trouble of raising the water, but by the 
means we point out, the labour of carrying it 
from place to place; and this is frequently 
three-fourths of the whole. The diagram here 
given, explains very clearly the contrivance, 
if contrivance it may be called, by which water 
may be carried to any distance, and up any 
height, short of the height of the tub or cis- 
tern at the pump itself. The object here is 
merely to show the plan, founded upon the 
well-known fact, that water will find its level ; 
and if the pipe and cistern were one hundred 
feet high, it would feed a tank anything short 
of its own height, at any distance. Of the 
manner in which these tanks are made — 
whether with wood lined with lead, or with 
bricks lined with cement, or any other kind — 
whether the pipe be iron or lead, or the reser- 
voir at the pump be a common tub, with a 
pipe in the bottom, or masonry, or square 
wood-work, pitched, or lined with lead, are 
matters of economy which must depend on 
circumstances. The plan and principle are 
the same, and the laws which govern the 
operations are the same ; and the plan may be 
modified and applied twenty different ways, 
and for as many different purposes, without 
any difficulty. The diagram is not in correct 
drawing, nor intended to be, for the pipes 
would be laid underground, and the tanks may 
be 100 yards apart. 
ORNAMENTAL TIMBER TREES. 
There may be trees ornamental in their 
nature, or useful, and made ornamental from 
their situation ; I propose to treat of those, 
which being rather out of the common way, 
may be themselves entitled to the name of 
ornamental; not that we would disparage the 
beauty of the British oak, but we should 
prefer giving the evergreen oak as a speci- 
men of the ornamental ; so, though it would 
be inconsiderate, if not unjust, to refuse 
the beech a place among ornamental timber 
trees, — but even here we should mention 
the purple beech in preference, — nevertheless, 
all our timber trees are highly ornamental, 
when they have appropriate localities to grow 
in, and, perhaps, all deserve a place. Orna- 
mental trees are not considered to be those 
planted wood fashion, to grow into timber, and 
be cut down; they are trees planted with an 
object, calculated to fulfil that object, and not 
to be cut down or removed until some other 
subject is ready to take its place, or the object 
for which it was placed there ceases to require 
it. All the single trees or select groups in a 
park, within sight of the mansion, are required 
to be ornamental, and people have of late 
years been more than ever sensible to the 
great advantage of evergreens over deciduous 
trees. Thus, some of the rapidly growing 
Pinus families are becoming great favourites, 
and others are more encouraged. The cedar 
of Lebanon, which, on its first introduction, 
appears to have been planted everywhere, and 
then neglected for years, takes its place among 
new plantations; and many other trees, long 
neglected in ornamental planting, are brought 
into notice. "We mention the cedar as a tree 
planted a good deal about on its introduction; 
the magnificent specimens seen in hundreds 
of places, all indicating something like the 
same age, bespeak this; and the after neglect 
seems indicated by the great scarcity of others 
of a smaller size ; unless we come down to 
those of dimensions which indicate the plant- 
ing to have been within the last thirty or forty 
years. However, one of the impressions which 
has existed for some time, that the cedar 
was a slow-growing tree, is completely got 
rid of: when they are in favourable soil, they 
grow handsomely and rapidly, and they will 
be more than ever used for ornamental timber. 
It is especially desirable that all trees which 
are to stand alone, should be of a kind that 
naturally grow handsome, and where there are 
many, the more diversity in form and cha- 
racter the better. In introducing the orna- 
mental timber trees grown in England, we 
shall offer a series of sketches, indicating their 
character and form under good culture, and 
we shall comprise in our list all the trees that 
can be well considered belonging to that 
class, commencing with the splendid Pinus 
Deodora, which will appear in our next paper. 
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THE FUCHSIA. 
This favourite, claimed by the florist, but run 
into all kinds of wild and extravagant coarse- 
ness by the introduction of the F. Fulgens, 
was one of the rarest and best of plants; some 
of the species are really beautiful, and have 
long formed one of the leading plants at 
market: the most beautiful of the varieties 
being the Globosa, which from its fine habit, 
abundant bloom, and facility of blooming while 
small, has long been a favourite with all 
plant growers. The principal quality of the 
bloom, and which gave rise to its name, was 
its globe-like form, the flowers hanging like 
