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is the pierced or open gate that requires care. 

 Here, turned or square balusters will always furnish 

 a good foundation for the design, the character of 

 the gate being shown by the shaped top rail. A 

 sketch of a wooden hand-gate, following an example 

 at Cleeve Prior, will be seen in fig. 19. 



The heavier types of stone and brick archways 

 have already been illustrated. That shown on the 

 left of the sketch of the Orangery Walk at Coombe 

 Warren, Kingston (fig. 4), is in keeping with the 

 architectural character of the whole scheme. The 

 stone archway (fig. 15) is a sketch for the grounds 

 of a large estate, while the brick gateway (fig. 14) 

 illustrates a similar feature designed in harmony 

 with Tudor buildings. 



So far we have spoken only of individual gates, 

 either standing alone or making a passage-way 

 through a wall from one part of the garden to 

 another. We must not, however, leave the subject 

 without a word on the larger aspect of iron gates 

 and wrought-iron screens as the principal feature of 

 interest in gardens of some size and dignity. At 

 the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of 

 the eighteenth century the craft of the smith was 



