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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Roadside Watering' Places. 
HE artistic treatment of 
memorial fountains, springs 
and other public places as at- 
tractive work for improve- 
ment societies, has been fre- 
quently noted in these col- 
umns. The accompanying 
illustrations and text from an 
article by Webb Donnell, in 
a recent number of the Coun- 
try Gentleman, show some simple and inexpensive ex- 
amples of effective work of this nature. 
The charm of country roads is greatly enhanced by 
artistic watering places. An old moss-covered trough, 
nestled among vines and wild shrubs, supplied by a 
weather-beaten spout that comes out of the cool wood 
depths the other side of the old rail fence, is as fine 
a settting for a drink of cool water as any horse, or his 
driver, could ask for. But unfortunately such a road- 
side watering place needs age for the mossing and 
weathering, and damp woodland for a background, — 
conditions not always to be found. The watering 
places must be located where a supply of water can be 
had — usually a pipe from a near-by spring on higher 
ground, — but the receptacle for the water and its imme- 
diate surroundings can be made attractive, even if na- 
ture has not done much in this direction. The ac- 
companying illustrations were made to offer sugges- 
tions along this line. 
Fig. i shows a plain tub, or barrel, that has been 
surrounded by a light frame to which wire poultry 
netting is attached, to afford a support for vines, the 
common woodbine, or the hop, being excellent for this 
purpose. If a tree is not at hand to throw its branches 
and its shade over this little arbor, no time should be 
lost in planting one or more. It takes a silver-leaf 
maple from the nursery not more than two years to be- 
come a handsome factor in making such a spot attrac- 
tive. 
Fig. 2 shows a section of iron boiler, or sewer pipe, 
some 24 inches in diameter, that has been established 
over the outlet of a spring or aqueduct. The founda- 
tion should be rock laid in cement, the lower end ot tne 
iron being embedded in the cement, the pipes for the 
supply and waste of the water being brought up 
through the foundation when it is laid. To keep wagon 
wheels from striking the watering place, a guard of 
iron gas pipe is firmly imbedded in the cement founda- 
tion. Such a watering place is more expensive than 
one made of wood, but will make a permanent fixture 
that will carry with it an air of thrift and neatness. 
Fig. 3 shows another kind of permanent watering 
trough that may commemmorate the life of some man 
whom the builder would like to honor, or may be 
marked to commemorate some event in the local his- 
tory of the place. New England, at least, abounds in 
spots that are memorable for courageous acts in Indian 
warfare, or for colonial happenings. History of other 
kinds has been made all over the country, individual 
FIG. 2. A PIPE SECTION FIG. 1. A BARREL 
OVER A SPRING. SURROUNDED BY A LIGHT 
FRAME. 
occurrences which could well be marked in this way. 
A prettier tribute to the memory of an ancestor could 
hardly be found than the erection of a fountain for the 
comfort of dumb animals. In the town adjoining that 
in which the writer’s home is situated a dozen or more 
granite watering places have been erected about the 
town, dedicated to the memory of the donor’s father, a 
former notable resident of the town. 
In the cut is shown not a granite trough, but one 
that can be erected in any locality, the foundation being 
of rough stone and cement, and the top of brick cor- 
ners and smooth-faced rough stones. The upper edge 
can be a granite slab cut in the form shown, or this 
rectangle of granite can be reproduced in moist sand 
and Portland cement, thoroughly mixed, enough mois- 
ture being used so that the mixture may mold smooth- 
l y- 
Fig. 4 shows a roadside watering place that is very 
common in New England. Its special significance is in 
FIG. 3. MEMORIAL 
WATERING TROUGH. 
