TERRACE WALLS 



signer's plan that they shall not appear to be limited 

 by any stretch of fence or hedge, which would break 

 the line of sight, but that the garden shall produce 

 the effect of melting into the sward of the park and 

 seem to be a part of its broad sweeps and spaces. A 

 hedge or fence would form an obvious boundary, and 

 the ha-ha was the ingenious alternative. " 



This is how it is made, according to* Mrs. Bur- 

 nett's description. A dry moat is dug where lawns 

 join park lands. One side, that toward the lawns, is 

 perpendicular; the other gently slopes; the tops are 

 carefully levelled with each other and the whole 

 neatly turfed. The perpendicular side is securely 

 walled, and also is fitted with a short horizontal 

 fence or wire netting, to prevent the incursions of 

 rabbits. No animal can cross this, and when it is 

 carefully levelled the result achieved is that when 

 one stands at a distance of only a few yards from it, 

 the eye notes no break in the sweep of turf and sees 

 nothing of the barrier, the moat being below the line 

 of view instead of forming a limiting obstruction 

 to it. " Since I have possessed a ha-ha of my own," 

 says Mrs. Burnett, "I have met many people who 

 are as interested and as vague on the subject as I 

 myself once was, and when asked to explain the 

 matter I have felt judging from my own past 

 emotions that to do so would perhaps be to allay a 



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