PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



planted just within the protective boundary, the 

 gate and gate-posts should be in harmony with the 

 fencing, without introducing a third type. 



Without the hedge, a combination of iron fencing 

 and gate, with brick posts, is a popular type, where 

 it is desirable to shut out dogs and flower- and fruit- 

 stealing youngsters. It may even be made effective 

 in keeping out chickens when the iron work is of 

 close pattern and there is a coping or low stone wall 

 in dose contact with it, instead of the usual space 

 below the iron rods. This type of enclosure is ex- 

 ceedingly ornamental, it serves as an effective bar- 

 rier, and it has the advantage of expressing a sort 

 of free hospitality in sharing the beauties of flower 

 attractions and landscape designs of front lawns and 

 gardens, while reserving the right to entire privacy 

 and seclusion by hedging or walling in the open-air 

 living-rooms of the back and side gardens. 



An arched and trellised gateway, with a simple 

 form of iron or picket gates and vine-covered fencing 

 of iron or wire, forms a picturesque entrance to a 

 cottage home. It may be in narrow arbor or pergola 

 form, or simply two or more arches, set close to- 

 gether and connected by arbor strips ; or it may be 

 in rustic form, of bark-covered logs and branches. 

 In every case this form of gateway is at its best when 



screened by vines that drape without entirely cover- 



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