26 FENCING. 



greens may be removed to the same place, and 

 after the same manner. Having thus furnished 

 your boundary strip, as a sheltering outline you 

 may plant anterior to it your finer evergreens, 

 which from time to time may be multiplied and 

 diversified from your stock of layers. This inner 

 range of shrubs, mingled with flowers, and made 

 accessible by a walk, remains to be further noticed 

 in Part III, the flower department. 



The incurable hedge we suppose to have been 

 utterly extirpated; and if the place it occupied 

 happen to be under the drop of the trees which 

 you have spared, or is likely to be soon over- 

 shadowed, a new stance, somewhat farther remote, 

 must of necessity be chosen, and there the same 

 method as that recommended in the formation of 

 a strip on new ground may be adopted; but with 

 this absolute resolve, that from the first the fence 

 shall be perfectly hare tight. A garden lying 

 open to hares, rabbits, hens, dogs, and cats, is truly 

 nonsense ; for why incur the expence of many 

 things, and render them all nugatory by saving 

 the expence of one? A few words, therefore on 

 the article of fencing will not not be deemed unneces- 

 sary; and ample apology for the pains may be pled 

 by the frequent occurrence of a ragged hedge as 

 the only shield of the manse garden. 



But should the requisite work appear less easy 

 than you could wish, the only rule for you is to 

 break all up and have no garden ; to buy your 

 vegetables and your fruits ; to make open pasture, 



