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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
this, which we shall lay before our readers, and one or the 
other of which may be adopted in almost every locality. 
The first is to provide a large flat cistern of sufficient size, 
which is to be placed under the roof in the upper story of 
one of the outbuildings, the carriage-house for example, and 
receive its supplies from the water collected on the roof 
of the building ; the amount of water collected in this way 
from a roof of moderate size being much more than is gene- 
rally supposed. The second is to sink a well of capacious 
size, (where such is not already at command,) in some part 
of the grounds where it will not be conspicuous, and over it 
to erect a small toweq the top of which shall contain a cis- 
tern and a small horizontal windmill ; which, being kept in 
motion by the wind more or less almost every day in sum- 
mer, will raise a sufficient quantity of water to keep the re- 
servoir supplied from the well below. In either of these 
cases, it is only necessary to carry leaden pipes from the cis- 
tern, (under the surface, below the reach of frost,) to the place 
where the jet is to issue ; the supply in both these cases will, 
if properly arranged, be more than enough for the consump- 
tion of the fountain during the hours when it will be neces- 
sary for it to play ; viz. from sunrise to evening. 
The steam engine is often employed to force up water for 
the supply of fountains in many of the large public and 
royal gardens ; but there are few cases in this country 
where private expenditures of this kind would be justifiable, 
“In conducting the water from the cistern or reservoir to 
the jet or fountain, the following particulars require to be at- 
tended to : — In the first place, all the pipes must be laid 
sufficiently deep in the earth, or otherwise placed and protected 
so as to prevent the possibility of their being reached by frost ; 
next, as a general rule, the diameter of the orifice from which 
