. Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. . tator reason to supposethat the proprietory is subdivided.—Parks being in themselvessufficient separation, generally, to ensure seclusion to the garden,the traveller has reason to expect from the liberal proprietor thatthe park fence shall be no more an interruption to his prospectthan is sufficient to guard the pr
. Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. . tator reason to supposethat the proprietory is subdivided.—Parks being in themselvessufficient separation, generally, to ensure seclusion to the garden,the traveller has reason to expect from the liberal proprietor thatthe park fence shall be no more an interruption to his prospectthan is sufficient to guard the property, confine his stock, andexclude the impertinent intruder: for there is nothing so fatal tothe beauty of the road, as the fences and walls that confine hisviews. Boundary fences, near public roads, are of several de-scriptions, suited to the size and nature of the property, andconstructed according to the object desired, as mere wood palingor park fencing, brick or stone walls upon level ground, orfences or walls raised on banks with a trench outward. A great variety of means may properly be used in the sameestate, adopted or devised according to the circumstances of theplace, and the peculiar advantages each is capable of affording. G 43 BOUNDARIES, GATES AND Road This form permits a person within to overlook the road,whilst it wholly excludes the view of the passenger, and avoidsthe offence of a high wall. The rear and side fences of a pro-perty may generally be formed in a way less hostile to landscape,by hedges and ditches with open wood posts and rails, until thenatural fence is capable of affording more ample of water and any other rural means analogous to the ge-neral character of the spot, may be used for this purpose; andwhen there is an opportunity of commanding a distant prospect,or of overlooking a fine and fertile country, similar modes ofseparation may be used, and which are also more generallyapplicable to internal separations of
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