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beautiful shrubs and climbers. On a tame sandy level, 
where rocks of any kind are unknown, their introduction 
in rockworks, nine times in ten, is more likely to give rise 
to emotions of the ridiculous, than those of the sublime or 
picturesque. 
Fountains are highly elegant garden decorations, rarely 
seen in this country ; which is owing, not so much, we 
apprehend, 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 artisans here, as abroad, whose business it is to 
construct and fit up architectural, and other jets d'eau. 
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. 
[Fig. 85. Design for a Fountain.] 
Where there is 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 
