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all natural growth has long since been eliminated, in which case 

 young trees of the same species as the native growth should be 

 chosen, if possible. Beech, oak, dogwood, alder, hornbeam 

 anything that is young enough to be soft and pliable, and that is 

 indigenous, is suitable for this woodsy, umbrageous wall of old- 

 world charm and permanence. Three or four kinds may be used, 

 just as in the natural sapling growth. 



Within the outer boundaries of a place there are numerous 

 lesser " limits " to be marked. The service or kitchen yard needs 

 its screen, the vegetable garden its protection, the chickens their 

 restriction, and perhaps a rose or flower garden its shelter and 

 seclusion. Each of these inner boundaries should be made the 

 motif for some particularly individual treatment, thus combining 

 utility and beauty. A high service yard lattice is the best 

 possible place for those fruit trees which in English and European 

 gardens are trained on walls. 



Arbors and trellises should always mark a boundary instead 

 of being set aimlessly down anywhere, with no reason for being 

 there. In fact if there is any one thing about garden design 

 that I believe needs emphasizing more than another it is this: 

 nothing should ever be built or planted without a reason; a 

 reason, mind not an excuse. 



Finally, never leave a fence or wall or other boundary un- 

 planted. Whether the defense which you have adopted is a 

 brick wall or chicken wire strung on gas pipe, be not satisfied 

 with it and it alone. Give it clothing ; if there is only room for 

 a hedge inside it or for vines to clamber through or over it, have 

 the hedge or the vines. Always have some living green to frame 

 the lawn and furnish the background for flowers, or whatever 

 may be introduced. 



Not a single summer need go by with a fence or a wall barren, 



