CHAPTER VI 1. 



NEIGHBOEING IMPEO VE M E N T S . 



Small is the worth of beauty /rem the light retired." — Tennyson. 



THERE is no way in which men deprive themselves of 

 wliat costs them notliing and profits them mucli, more 

 than by dividing their improved grounds from their 

 neighbors, and from the view of passers on tlie road, 

 by fences and hedges. The beauty obtained by throwing front 

 grounds open together, is of that excellent quality which enriches 



