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of the wall, or honeysuckle fence, and shrubs partially 

 screen it, and the lawn within becomes a park in mini- 

 ature, its design obedient to park laws. Everything 

 would naturally be in proportion, trees and shrubs of 

 moderate and even dwarf growth finding place on the 

 smallest lawn. There is likely on the small place to 

 be danger of overcrowding, for there should be a 

 breadth of grass plot or lawn sufficient to make the 

 place look larger rather than smaller than it really is. 

 The sense of comparative breadth can always be main- 

 tained in the smallest place. 



It should hardly need repeating that a boundary 

 enclosure of this kind should have along its borders 

 shrubs and trees so arranged as to not only carry out 

 the general law of design, but to reveal at intervals 

 brief glimpses over the boundary to pleasing objects 

 beyond. 



A fence is generally an unattractive part of the 

 landscape. It is artificial, no matter how it is designed, 

 whether of iron, wood, or stone. Wire fastened to 

 iron posts makes a cheap fence that will last at least 

 twenty years in many cases, but it is ugly. Cover it 

 with honeysuckles and it is beautiful. There can be 

 little objection to any fence, if covered with vines or 

 other vegetation, especially if trees and shrubs lend 

 the support of their protecting and screening foliage. 

 The fence then becomes quite as attractive as any 

 other part of the place, especially as it need not shut out, 

 and indeed never should entirely shut out, important 

 views of spaces exterior and beyond. 



