CHAPTER III 



THE GARDEN ENCLOSURE 



|JTT^^^HE early English 

 ;;: gardens were en- 



51 closed by high walls 



83 JL. of brick or stone and 

 often surrounded by a moat. 

 If such materials were not 

 available Osier fences were 

 used instead or pickets painted green. 

 Privet, Box and Yew were used for 

 hedges, allowed to grow from eight to ten 

 feet high, and kept carefully clipped and 

 trimmed. American gardens have rarely 

 been enclosed by high walls, except in 

 cities and towns where it was necessary 

 to screen some objectionable object, or 

 where proximity to the traffic of the street 

 interfered with the privacy that a garden 

 should primarily possess. The idea of 

 high-walled seclusion is foreign to this 



