The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . AND FENCES. 59 Fig. 16. that may be produced from the same trees by permitting the mainstems to keep their upright direction, and forming the arch by en-couraging and uniting the growth of the inner branches at theproper heiglit. Where evergreens areto be planted for this purpose, thefence should curve inwards to thegate, as shown by the transverse sec-tion (Fig. 16), so that trees designedto form the arcli can be planted ona line with the posts
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . AND FENCES. 59 Fig. 16. that may be produced from the same trees by permitting the mainstems to keep their upright direction, and forming the arch by en-couraging and uniting the growth of the inner branches at theproper heiglit. Where evergreens areto be planted for this purpose, thefence should curve inwards to thegate, as shown by the transverse sec-tion (Fig. 16), so that trees designedto form the arcli can be planted ona line with the posts, and two or three feet from them. All thistopiary work may be a substitute for expensive gateways, or itmay, with equal propriety, be introduced as an accessory deco-ration, where the posts are not of a massive, or highly ornatecharacter. In the latter case, whatever beauty of design andworkmanship has been wrought out in stone should not be delib-erately concealed by such forms of
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