. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. â¢character throughout. "Where a splendid prospect challenges our admiraticr, it should be invisible; where a factory chimney, in a bleak locality, requires concealing, an ornamental wall may serve our purpose. Part of the fence on the plan given on page 53 is a strong iron rabbit-proof one, six feet high, which imparts better ideas of security and strength, near the carriage-entrance, than anything else, save brick or stone, could have given. The same, or a similar k
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. â¢character throughout. "Where a splendid prospect challenges our admiraticr, it should be invisible; where a factory chimney, in a bleak locality, requires concealing, an ornamental wall may serve our purpose. Part of the fence on the plan given on page 53 is a strong iron rabbit-proof one, six feet high, which imparts better ideas of security and strength, near the carriage-entrance, than anything else, save brick or stone, could have given. The same, or a similar kind of fence, might run along most of the east side, reserving the west and south for the ha-ha. The object of the ha-ha is to make a fence entirely invisible, or to make what is a very dwarf fence from the inside, a tall one from the park. Invisible ha-ha's are thus formed, with the aid of a brick wall from four to six feet high, which should batter slightly ; or the wall may be dis- pensed with, and a small iron fence sub- Btituted, as in the margin. Sometimes an upright fence is placed in the bot- tom of the ditch ; but this is the worst of all forms of the ha-ha,âif, indeed, it deserves the name at all. Another form of ha-ha is to have a dwarf iron fence, with a brick or stone wall, of a plain or ornamental character, rising to the height of one, two, or three feet, as in the vignette at the end of this chap- ter. These walls may have a solid base, and the greater part be composed of open balustrades, finished with a massive copmg, furnished with vases. The vig- ^.; ..-â '" nette will illustrate my meaning. 1S3. The following diagrams and remarks, from Kepton's " Landscapo Gardening," will show the importance of having these walls of the right height and at the proper distance. Mr. Repton says, where the ground falls from the house in an inclined plane, the distance of the fence can only be ascertained by actual experiment on the spot; and of course, the
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