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by the eye. A low wall^ tliii1;y inches in height, forming 

 a snnk fence two feet in depths with two wii'es along the 

 top, affords a good cheap protection for plantations where 

 stones are abnndant. 



Stone IVaUs are good permanent fences ; bnt on flat 

 or slightly imdnlating surfaces they often hide a con- 

 siderable breadth of view, especially when employed as 

 internal divisions. For plantations they are less objec- 

 tionable, as the trees overhang and veil them. They 

 are best suited for hilly and mountainous coimtries, and 

 in these they may be freely employed, as the objections 

 which may be made against walls in other places are 

 there less applicable. 



Hedges afford a cheap and ready sort of fence ; they 

 are not however, generally speaking, very suitable for 

 the park, for however neatly they may be cut and dressed, 

 it is needful^ when they form the boundaiies of climaps 

 or plantations, to keep the tiTes trimmed back, in order 

 to prevent them from injming the hedges, and so they 

 impart a more fonnal and constrained outline to gi'ow- 

 ing wood than abnost any other species of fence does. 

 Hedges may be planted with good effect on the inside 

 of the boundary walls of the park, to clothe them when 

 they are not screened by plantations. 



