Fencing Plantations 



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The uprights are rent from oak or chestnut trees of straight 

 grain, and are usually about f% of an inch thick, and 5ft. 

 high. The posts are erected 6 ft. apart, the rails being 

 mortised into these, and the rent uprights fastened about 

 2 in. apart by patent rose nails to the horizontal rails. A 

 fence of this kind, when properly erected, will last for up- 

 wards of forty years, especially if the butts of the posts are 

 charred before being inserted in the ground. 



Rustic fences for small tree clumps may be of almost 



WIRE FENCE WITH WOODEN POSTS 



any design, but the following is cheap and easily erected. It 

 is formed of larch posts 6 ft. long, and about 4 \ in. diameter, 

 driven into the ground at 6 ft. apart. Two flat or rounded 

 rails about 3 in. by 1J in. are nailed horizontally to these, 

 the lower at 9 in. from the ground and the other flush with 

 the tops of the posts, which when driven in are 4 ft. from 

 ground level. The uprights are also of larch, split up the 

 centre and nailed on the horizontal bars at 2 in. apart. 

 They extend above the top rail for 7 in., and are sharply 

 pointed so that they cannot be climbed over. 



Wire Fences. These may be erected either with iron 



