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tenons should be well painted, and also the surfaces of conjunc 

 tion between all other parts. The cap board is as wide as the 

 stiles, with the ends let in them about half an inch, as shown in 

 the figure. When such a gate opens into the highway, it looks 

 quite as well to have it hung with hooks and strap-hinges, like 

 Fig. 84. 



A STRUT AND PICKET GATE. 



252. Fig. 90 represents, in the eyes of many people, a very 

 FIG. 90. 



A STRUT AND PICKET GATE. 



tasty and fanciful style of lawn gate. The heel stile is about two 

 and a half by four or five inches, and the latch stile two and a 

 half by two, and the arms also two and a half by two. The bot 

 tom board is about eight inches wide and three inches below the 

 lower arm. The struts are one inch thick and two and a half 

 wide, and the ends sawed off in a mitre-box. In nailing on the 

 struts, commence with the shortest one, at the heel stile. The 

 pickets may be of any desirable style, with or without ornamen 

 tal tops, or the tops may be plain and tapering to a point. Such 

 a gate ought to be hung with hooks and strap hinges, bolted to 

 the stile and the upper arm. If such a gate is more than nine 

 feet long, there should be a stay bolted to the arms and bottom 

 board in the middle of the gate. When such a gate is u'sed very 

 often, it would bo much better to have a double gate two short 

 ones than one twelve feet in length. It may be fastened with 

 a latch or hook. It would be well to have an iron tie on a gate 



