THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



and each baluster should not be farther 

 from its neighbor than the distance of its 

 own diameter ; and if the entire structure 

 has a run of many feet its look of same- 

 ness is best relieved by piers being intro- 

 duced every eight or ten feet. 



FENCES 



By far the simplest type of garden en- 

 closure is the picket fence or the fence of 

 palings. This sort of fence originated in 

 gardens some time in the sixteenth cen- 

 tury. Beautiful examples are to be found 

 in our old Colonial gardens. Of pleasing 

 and simple lines, it served its purpose 

 admirably. It was generally painted white 

 or was whitewashed, and a more effective 

 color it would be difficult to find, al- 

 though examples are to be found where 

 some misguided person, thinking to make 

 it fancy, has used various colors and 

 painted the posts one color and the palings 

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