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a 



that 



y e 



hi 



ave 



chose 



n 



? 



for 



y e 



shall 



e as an oak, whose leaf 



" fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 



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FENCES 



The most important of all things relating to a Garden is that 

 which cannot contribute to its beauty, but without which a 

 Garden cannot exist : the Fence must be effective and durable. 



the irruption of a herd of deer in one night may lay waste 



the cost and labour of many years. Every thing at Ashridg 



on 



great scale of substantial 



permanent grand 



an 



e same 



the Fence to the Gardens should doubtless be th 

 deep walled ha! ha! invented by Brown was seldom 



The 



% 



him but to give a view through some glade, or to afford security 

 to a terrace-walk ; from whence we might see two bulls fight 



5 



without the possibility of danger: this cannot 



e 



o 



that wire-bird-cage expedient, which has 



o 



f late 



troduced 



y 



been in 



to save 



expence of a more lasting barrier 



though it may be sufficient to resist sheep 

 a few years, in the villas near Lond 



or even cows 



for 



tisfied when a vicious stag approaches it with 



yet the mind is not 



and 



a mien not to be terrified. Add to this 



daunted eye, 

 e misery of 



th 



misty gauze veil 



viewing a landscape through a prison-b 



ranging above the eye. Besides iron is a material of whicl 



have had but little experience, exc< 



i we 



For this 



a 



fter b 



e adopted 



only as a temporary expedient 



pt that it too soon decays. 

 3 map, which may here- 

 must consider the present wire-fence 



line is shewn on th 



and 





