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of a mansion, if circumstances permit, I 

 should wish its adoption : more particularly 

 where it is essential that the uniformly in- 

 clined line of the scenery be interrupted, as 

 described in the observation on Bromley 

 Hill, a transparent fence will not restore the 

 horizontal plane so necessary to the compo- 

 sition, as the sloping ground beyond will be 

 seen through it. 



We have already seen that some places 

 are so circumstanced as to require no fence 

 visible from the windows : there are, also, 

 others, though of smaller dimensions, where? 

 from the inequality of the dress ground, the 

 fence will be lost among the shrubs in the 

 bottom. Neither will a wall be applicable 

 where the lawn falls laterally as seen from the 

 windows, and cannot be planted out without 

 injury to the view. Danesfield is an example in 

 point, where the lawn, having passed the win- 

 dows in a horizontal direction, falls rapidly 

 down till it is lost in a wood below : here, 

 however desirable a dwarf wall might be on 

 the horizontal plane of the lawn, any attempt 

 to plant out its junction with the fence on the 

 descending line would be highly detrimental. 



In places where the dwarf wall is appli- 

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