io Fences, Walls and Hedges 



worked material and comes in convenient 

 shapes and sizes. Early forms of wood 

 fences are the snake, split rail and stump. 

 Later came the dressed rail and the board 

 and picket fence and such elaborate types 

 as are seen on large formal places, where 

 lattice work, balustraded fences, hoop 

 fences and many with combinations of the 

 above, occur. 



The best we can say about the snake 

 fence is that it is picturesque, which is 

 another horribly misused word. Yet when 

 used to border an old pasture or encircle 

 a wood lot, the snake fence fits into its sur- 

 roundings so well that we are apt to for- 

 give it its faults, for it surely has some. 

 It is not a permanent type and as it is 

 only used for economy and speed of con- 

 struction it can be dismissed from the re- 

 mainder of these pages. 



The more usual forms of wood fences 

 are board and picket. They are simple 

 in construction, the members consisting 

 of boards or pickets secured to horizontal 

 members which are in turn supported by 

 uprights in the ground. The most im- 

 portant member is the upright. The 



