FENCES FOR PARK AND FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



Neither walls nor hedges should ever be used as fences to masses or clumps 

 in Park Scenery. The stiff, marked hue or barrier which they produce, is 

 highly objectionable; and if once put up, their removal in due time is 

 seldom attended to. Temporary fences are the best : the intention being, 

 that in ten or fifteen years, or when it is supposed the trees have attained 

 sufficient growth not to be injured by cattle, these barriers shall be wholly 

 removed, and the whole ground among them thrown into one range. The 

 wire fence, named in a previous chapter, for dividing the park and the dress 

 grounds, would be the most useful. Cheaper and fighter wire may be had, 

 but. as already observed, playful cattle are liable to entangle their legs in the 

 wires. The iron hurdle is a veiy suitable fence, being moveable at will ; the 

 small-sized ones, three feet three inches in height, and six feet in length, if 

 well made, (at a cost of about two shillings or two shillings and threepence per 

 yard,) are quite sufficient, and last long when kept well painted. The Scotch 

 fencing may be employed when materials are on the spot, and not to buy; but, 

 as it is not veiy durable, if it has to be purchased, the iron or wire fencing is 

 tire cheapest. The Scotch fencing is composed of larch rods, of about two or 

 three inches in diameter, driven into the ground about six inches apart, and 

 standing about three feet six inches in height. A half-rounded rod is nailed 

 on the top of the stakes, with the flat side downward, binding the whole firmly 

 together. 



Posts and rails, though a rough fence, are preferable to the stiff hedge, 

 wall, or palings ; but wire and iron fencings are so moderate in price and so 

 durable, that no other argument is needed to enforce the propriety of their 

 adoption in preference. 



General plantations or woods are best fenced by dwarf walls or hedges. 

 A wall, about three feet or three feet six inches high, is the better of the two. 

 At a distance, and when the stones have become stained and moss-grown, 



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