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Cambridge, consisted of a stout single rail, 

 framed into square posts, the upper part of 

 which was turned as a baluster or finial. At 

 Tissington there is a good wooden railing next 

 the park, formed of a stout moulded rail at top 

 and bottom mortised into solid posts i foot by 4^- 

 inches. These posts are shaped like balusters. 

 The wooden gates were often solid and panelled, 

 and dither little from the doors of the time. 

 The upper panel was often filled with vertical 

 bars. There is a good example of a seventeenth- 

 century wooden gate at Eyam Hall, and 

 another at Canons Ashby. For large gates, 

 iron was more often used. 



The orange-trees which were set out on the 

 terrace stood in cases, in order to be moved 

 into shelter in winter. London and Wise 

 recommended that the bottom should be 

 perforated and filled in with oyster shells 

 and potsherds, to let the water get away, and 

 each side should be made with hinges to open, 

 in order to get at the '' hard, crusty, reticulated 

 roots," and to water them and put in fresh 

 earth. They give 18x18 inches to each side 

 as a dimension, but this is much too small. In 

 the gardens at the back of the Hotel de Ville, 

 at Rouen, there are some good examples which 

 measure 5 feet by 5, with angle posts 4 inches 

 square, and planking 1 .', inches thick. All the 

 sides are hinged. 



Fountains of every description were always 



