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of shelter and shade, endeavouring still to make 

 the place more worthy of ourselves, and ourselves 

 more worthy of the place. 



In order to avoid the box-like appearance of a 

 common walled garden, I have recommended, as part 

 of the enclosing line, a hedge and sunk fence. It is 

 not to be expected that, before the hedge is well 

 grown the low wall should be sufficient to keep out 

 the ordinary intruders; and there it will be necessary 

 to erect a paling, which maybe very slight, as it will 

 neither be long needed nor have much to do in re- 

 sisting cattle, being well aided by the sunken wall 

 of three or fourfeet. As economy is a great beauty 

 when the end is sufficiently accomplished, the 

 minuteness of the following description of paling 

 will readily be excused. At the distance of nine 

 feet from each other, let stuckings (stakes) of 

 peeled larch, three to four inches diameter, charred 

 at the lower end, be driven at the bottom of the 

 wall, and held against its front by ranees from be- 

 hind ; the stuckings must overtop the wall by two 

 feet; let two bars run along the outsides, giving 

 thus more room to the hedge, the one a little lower 

 than the summit of the wall, and the other an inch 

 or two from the top of the stuckings; and let these 

 bars be crossed by pieces of lath placed upright, 

 and not more than two inches apart. Let the 

 whole be anointed, when very dry with coal tar 

 and the fabric will last for ten years. It may be 

 asserted that no other sort of paling, if hare-tight- 

 ness be effected, as by the above, will so much 



