CHAPTER VII. 



NEIGHBORING IMPROVEMENTS. 



Small is the worth of beauty from the light retired." TENNYSON. 



THERE is no way in which men deprive themselves of 

 what costs them nothing and profits them much, more 

 than by dividing their improved grounds from their 

 neighbors, and from the view of passers on the road, 

 by fences and hedges. The beauty obtained by throwing front 

 grounds open together, is of that excellent quality which enriches 



