. Common sense gardens. Gardening. [from old catalog]. 178 COMMON SENSE GARDENS seen a wall around the garden of a house near Bal- timore that was built in 1773. Note how ex- tremely well the house and wall combine. Never use tile, especially glazed tile, to cap a brick wall; no finish at all would be preferable. The Southerners used a very good combination of brick wall and picket fence; there is such an enclosure on one side of the garden at Mt. Vernon. On page 174 there is a reproduction of this fence which has been built to make a forecourt for a. Old ]^rick Wall with Moulded Cap house of
. Common sense gardens. Gardening. [from old catalog]. 178 COMMON SENSE GARDENS seen a wall around the garden of a house near Bal- timore that was built in 1773. Note how ex- tremely well the house and wall combine. Never use tile, especially glazed tile, to cap a brick wall; no finish at all would be preferable. The Southerners used a very good combination of brick wall and picket fence; there is such an enclosure on one side of the garden at Mt. Vernon. On page 174 there is a reproduction of this fence which has been built to make a forecourt for a. Old ]^rick Wall with Moulded Cap house of Colonial design, and to shut off the kitchen garden from the lawn. The trees around it are very old, pyramidal-shaped Cedars, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sewell, Cornelius V. V. [from old catalog]. New York, The Grafton press
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