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and a half or two inches wide, put up at a right angle to each 

 other, or at an angle that will make the meshes or open spaces 

 of a rhomboidal form, as in the illustration. The spaces may be 

 of the width of the lattice strips, or from three to four inches 

 wide. The tops of them should be screwed together, instead of 

 nailing them, as screws will hold much better than nails. In 

 putting on the strips, they should be kept at just such an angle ; 

 and the surfaces of conjunction, between the two courses of lat 

 tice, ought to be painted before the second course is nailed on. 



THE FORMS OF PICKET TOPS 



184. Are as numerous as the different styles of fence, and may 

 be varied to suit the taste of the most fastidious. Many men 

 like the plainest form possible for picket tops ; and others, again, 

 think a fence very incomplete and tasteless without ornamental 

 tops of some style. The style of architecture in which the 

 buildings are finished should determine, in a measure, the style 

 of picket tops for the fence which encircles them. Figs. 58, 59, 

 60, represent turned pickets, and are particularly adapted to rural 

 residences, with spacious dooryards, or lawns, beautifully embel 

 lished with a variety of shrubs and evergreens. The top of 

 Fig. 58 is turned in the shape of an egg. The top of Fig. 59 is 

 of any oblong conical form. Fig. 60 is of the form of an acorn. 



FIGS. 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 



68. 



FORMS OF TOPS OF PICKETS. 



If it were desirable to have the acorns larger than the main parts 

 of the pickets, they might be turned separately, and a half-inch 



