. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. six feet high, — five being an excellent average, 188. These observations upon fencing will 6e incomplete without a few remarks upon gates. As a general rule, they must always be in harmony with the character of the fence. Occasionally, however, in pleasure- grounds, where a rabbit-proof fence is hidden with shrubs, the gate spanning the walk may be much better and more elegant than the fence. The most beautiful gates I have ever seen are those in the gar- dens at Hardwick
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. six feet high, — five being an excellent average, 188. These observations upon fencing will 6e incomplete without a few remarks upon gates. As a general rule, they must always be in harmony with the character of the fence. Occasionally, however, in pleasure- grounds, where a rabbit-proof fence is hidden with shrubs, the gate spanning the walk may be much better and more elegant than the fence. The most beautiful gates I have ever seen are those in the gar- dens at Hardwicke House. A broad gravel promenade, in front of part of the range of glass, bounded on one side by a ribbon border, and on the other by a panelled wall, furnished with vases on all the piers, is terminated at both ends by lofty iron gates of chaste pattern and blue-and-gold colour. Three smaller pair and two large gates, of similar colour and patterns, are used in different parts of the grounds with excellent effect. Lodge or entrance-gates are most effective in pairs. They should neither be too massive nor too light,—of sufficient width to prevent anxiety about wheels or posts ; of elegant pattern, strong construction, and a colour that can be easily discerned at night. Nothing can equal, in ultimate economy, nor exceed in usefulness and beauty, a well- raised, carefully-hung pair of wrought-iron gates, ten or twelve feet wide, and painted a light stone-coloui*. D. T. 189. The Garden Wall is as the setting to the gem; without its inclosing fence, it would be undistinguishable from the neighbouring fields, and its contents exposed to the depredations of man and beast, as well as to the "pitiless pelting" of every storm. But besides the protection it affords in this sense, the properly-constructed garden wall has other important con- servative duties. Dr. Wells, in his interesting experiments on the origin of dew, found that a thermometer protected by a handkerc
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