THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



and rails another. Sometimes these fences 

 were quite high like the one shown on 

 page 187. This is of modern construction 

 modelled on old lines, and a very charming 

 one it is ; a fence that is a distinct aid to 

 the setting of a modest garden of a brick 

 or wooden house built on Colonial lines. 

 If a fence of this nature is set with large 

 posts of red cedar, locust or chestnut, and 

 these posts are treated with a preservative 

 mixture of creosote on that part that goes 

 into the ground, it will not have to be re- 

 paired for twenty or thirty years ; a coat 

 of paint for the palings every other year 

 being the only treatment needed. 



Examples of good iron fences are rare, 

 and this is not to be wondered at, for it 

 must indeed take an artist to fashion one 

 so as to have it appear in keeping with 

 a private garden. A wrought-iron fence 

 may be a thing of great beauty, an archi- 

 tectural gem as much different from the 

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