EMBELLISHMENTS. 
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Fountains are highly elegant garden decorations, rarely 
seen in this country ; which is owing, not so much, we ap- 
prehend, to any great cost incurred in putting them up, or 
any want of appreciation of their sparkling and enlivening 
effect in garden scenery, as to the fact that there are few arti- 
zans here, as abroad, whose business it is to construct and 
fit up architectural, and other jets dleau. 
The first requisite, where a fountain is a desideratum, is a 
constant supply of water, either from a natural source, or an 
artificial reservoir, some distance higher than the level of the 
surface whence the jet or fountain is to rise. Where there is 
[Fig. 80. Design for a Fountain. ] 
a pond, or other body of water, on a higher level than the 
proposed fountain, it is only necessary to lay pipes under the 
surface to conduct the supply of water to the required spot ; 
but where there is no such head of water, the latter must be 
provided from a reservoir artificially prepared, and kept con- 
stantly full. 
There are two very simple and cheap modes of effecting 
