CHAPTER X 



FENCES AND HEDGES 



PICKET fences of the 

 same character as 

 those seen in com- 

 bination with brick 

 walls, make good enclos- 

 ures for gardens. The use 

 of pickets or palings dates 

 at least from the sixteenth century, when 

 Englishmen utilized them if brick and 

 stone, their favourite materials, could 

 not be procured. They painted them 

 green, but the Colonial fences from which 

 those of to-day are patterned were in- 

 variably white. The later Colonial archi- 

 tecture is a modification of the Georgian, 

 which has left its impress on many parts 

 of the Eastern States. It was adapted 

 by the colonists to the climate and their 

 pocketbooks, and thus became softened 

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