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railings. These unsightly fencings are wilfully brought into 

 what is perhaps the most beautiful landscape, and always 

 with disastrous effect, while the material for the most 

 suitable fencing is close at hand and wasted. It is usually 



Oak Post axd Rail Fence 



urged in defence of the iron railing that it is permanent, 

 whereas some day the oak fence must be renewed. But 

 it should be remembered that the labour of the not un- 

 frequent painting with black tar-varnish — perhaps the ugliest 

 covering the wretched things could have- — -is also a per- 



