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The steward's house is surrounded by apiece of pleasure ground, 

 enclosed with a wire fence, in imitation of the fence of wood, or 

 hazel rods, shown in fig. 622. Encyclopcsdia of Gardeniiig, 2d 

 edition. The adoption of such a form in wire we maintain to 

 be in bad taste, for the following reasons. Either a fence ought 

 to be architectural, and avowed as a component part of the 

 landscape, or it ought to be incidental, and rendered as incon- 

 spicuous as possible consistently with its use as a barrier. Now 

 a wire fence can never be rendered architectural, because there 

 can be no architecture without considerable bulk or dimensions. 

 To be inconspicuous it ought to have consisted simply of hori- 

 zontal lines, supported by a few pei'pendicular lines, or of per- 

 pendicular lines, supported by a few horizontal ones. Here, 

 however, as in the figure above referred to, the wires cross each 

 other like network ; and, as if these were not enough, they are 

 bent round at top, so as to render them still more conspicuous 

 to the eye than if they presented network without a border. 

 The best description of wire fence, whether for parks or pleasure 

 grounds, is that in which strong iron uprights, shaped like 

 swords, are inserted in the ground in masonry, so firmly as not 

 to require bases ; the breadth of the blade of the sword, being 

 across the direction of the line of fence, and its hilt in the ground. 

 Connect these swords by horizontal wires, not all of one size, but 

 with the slightest wire at top, and increasing in size towards the 

 ground. If hares are to be excluded, smaller-sized wires near 

 the ground must be introduced between the large ones. This 

 we consider as forming the most inconspicuous, effective, and 

 durable of iron fences. 



Art. TI. On the Introdiiction of Single Trees in Park Scenery. 

 By Mr. R. Glendinning. 



My remarks in the present article will be confined to direct- 

 ing the attention of your readers to the introduction into parks 

 of single trees ; as regards the individual species or variety, the 

 formation of masses by their ultimate proximity when advanced 

 in growth, and disposition at sufficient distances from one another 

 to admit of their entire development. What has principally 

 given birth to these remarks, are the objections which have 

 arisen to enclosing large portions of ground for the formation of 

 groups, and the expense attending their enclosure. Iron has 

 been recommended to protect single trees, and has been exten- 

 sively employed in enclosing large plantations ; but, though I am 

 an advocate for iron fencing generally, when used in surrounding 

 large masses of plantation, yet the propriety of adopting it to 

 individual trees appears to me somewhat questionable. A group 

 will of itself give abundant density for the end in view ; but, 



