GATES AND FENCES FOR GARDEN AND PARK. 



Terrace walls, fruit walls, and the wing walls to entrances are dealt with elsewhere, 



but much that has been said of garden walls in general applies equally to them. 



Wrought- The employment of wrought iron for garden fences has not of recent years received 



iron fences, the attention it should, partly, no doubt, on account of the initial expense and partly 



from a failure to discriminate between wrought iron of good workmanship and cast iron 



Large 



entrance 



gates. 



IT 



FIG. 69. SIMPLE WOODEN ENTRANCE GATES. 



imitations of the old work. In the best periods of English garden design, wrought iron 

 was always held as almost essential to its highest development and might to-day be 

 employed more frequently when garden improvements are under consideration. Nothing 

 could be better for the fences between the forecourt of a Georgian residence and the 

 highway, as at No. 50, where it is desirable to hide as little of the facade as possible. 

 In such cases the fence should 

 generally be designed on perfectly 

 simple lines with the ornamental 

 emphasis occurring seldom and con- 

 centrated at special points to 

 emphasize the main lines of the 

 composition as a whole. This result 

 is most often attained by reserving 

 the ornament for pilasters or gates, 

 as in the design just referred to. 



Having thus briefly sketched 

 the more important of the various 

 kinds of fences which may be used 

 in the garden, we may now consider 

 the gates to be used in conjunction 

 with them, and without which they 

 would be incomplete. 



Large entrance gates are dealt 

 with in another chapter, and the 

 number of folding gates which are 

 required for other situations is more 

 or less restricted, so that it has 

 only been thought necessary to give 

 designs for two, one in iron and the 

 other in wood. The first, No. 70, 

 was designed as part of the scheme 

 for laying out gardens at Green- 

 woods, Stock, the architecture of FIG. 70 ---GATE AM\ STEPS AT GREENWOODS, STOCK, ESSEX. 



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