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ORNAMENTAL BOUND PICKET FENCE. 



picket fence which can be built, but which harmonizes quite 

 well with the style of archi- FIQ. 56. 



tecture of the buildings which 

 it is designed to surround. 

 The pickets are turned round 

 and pointed, and every alter 

 nate one passes through three 

 rails. The rails should be 

 bored with precision, and 

 with an auger or bit that 

 will cut a clean, smooth hole, 

 so that the pickets will fit 

 water-tight. If they are 

 painted, there will be no danger of their rotting in the rails on 

 account of the rain getting in the joints. 



181. In making this or any other style of picket fence up a 

 slope, the rails for one panel must be fastened in the position of 

 inclination in which they are to be placed, when the fence is 

 built, and then, with the plumb rule, make a perpendicular mark 

 on the edges of the rails ; after which it will be easy to adjust 

 the table on which the rails are laid when they are bored, in 

 order to have the holes of the desired angle. When the fence is 

 built on level ground, the holes for the pickets must be bored 

 through the rails at a right angle ; but if bored at a right angle 

 when the fence is not on a level, the pickets will all lean in pro 

 portion to the steepness of the slope, which would look awkward 

 and very unworkmanlike. I should not have mentioned these 

 particulars, had I not seen fences which were made by inexpe 

 rienced workmen, with the pickets leaning down the slope at 

 about a right angle with the surface of the ground. A modifica 

 tion of this style of 



AN ORNAMENTAL LAWN FENCE, 



182. A fine specimen of which may be seen encircling the 

 grounds of Mr. Andrus, of Ithaca, is made with turned posts 

 with acorn tops, and turned pickets with acorn tops, with two 



