Garden Boundaries 



403 



wild Peas, and Grapes; but they form a clinging-place 

 for that devil's brood, Poison Ivy, which is so per- 

 sistent in growth and so difficult to exterminate. 



The old worm fence was distinctly American ; it 

 had a zigzag series of chestnut rails, with stakes 

 of twisted cedar saplings which were sometimes 

 " chunked" by 

 moss - covered 

 boulders just 

 peeping from 

 the earth. This 

 worm f e n c e 

 secured to the 

 nature lover 

 and to wild life 

 a strip of land 

 eight or ten feet 

 wide, whereon 

 plant, bird, 

 beast, reptile, 

 andinsectflour- 

 ished and re- 

 produced. It 

 has been, within 

 a few years, a 



gardening fashion to preserve these old " Virginia " 

 fences on country places of considerable elegance. 

 Planted with Clematis, Honeysuckle, Trumpet vine, 

 Wistaria, and the free-growing new Japanese Roses, 

 they are wonderfully effective. 



On Long Island, east of Riverhead, where there 

 are few stones to form stone walls, are curious and 



1-.- v — 



: f"" t 



Rail Fence Corner. 



