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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1 9 1 4 



Get Ready to Paint 



It is poor economy to delay your painting — make 



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MORRIS NURSERY CO. Tel. 4561 Gramercy 949 Broadway, Flatiron Bldg., New York, N. Y. 



jxij in. lattice; three 16-foot 4x4 posts, 100 feet 

 of I x 4 in. N. C. pine boards, 200 feet of t-inch cove 

 moulding, 100 feet of J x f in. hard yellow pine, 

 30 feet ij x ij in. yellow pine, and 5, 16 foot | inch 

 North Carolina pine boards. All of this lumber was 

 dressed both sides. 



To put up the fence I first sawed my 4 x 4 in. pieces 

 in half, making six 8-foot posts and these I planted 

 fifteen feet apart along the back lot line, leaving 

 them 6| feet above the soil and making five 15-foot 

 bays. The foot-boards were next sawed to length 

 and toe-nailed in between the posts. Then a 4- 

 inch pair of cleats were sawed off the cove moulding 

 and nailed across the posts four feet above the top 

 of the foot board. On these rested the ends of the 

 four inches wide top running board. This running 

 board is essential to stiffen the whole fence, for its 

 lateral resistance is equal to a 4-inch beam, making a 

 very strong job of your fence. 



In the centre of each bay I put a ijxij in. up- 

 right to take up the sag of the top running board, 

 under which went a short 12-inch reinforcing piece, 

 and the whole was nailed together. Next, each 

 bay was framed with the cove moulding. This 

 offset f inch on the top of the foot-board and carried 

 up both sides of the posts and across under the top 

 running board. It was nailed at every foot and it 

 served as a nailing frame for the ends of all the 

 lattice. 



The lattice went on next, spaced 8 inches hori- 

 zonally and 18 inches apart for the upright mem- 

 bers, and a small nail was put in and clinched at 

 each lattice crossing. 



Up to this point the lattice was just plain fence; 

 it lacked grace, finish. I now put in the curves 

 which you see festooning the top of the fence. I 

 measured approximately the lengths from the top 

 of the post along the sweep of a curve down to the 

 middle of the bay in the top running-board, and 

 cut off a length of the f x § in. pine to this measure- 

 ment. Beginning a foot from one end I made saw- 

 cuts an inch apart and three quarters through the 

 pine stick for 30 inches along it. Putting it in place 

 on top of the running board, with one end leaning 

 against the post, a firm downward pressure bent it 



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Such a fence as this a little more decorative than 

 the ordinary thing and is not unduly costly 



into a curve. Presently the nail in the post end 

 was nearly in position to drive and when it caught 

 it materially assisted in forming the sharp tangen- 

 tial curve of the final finish. As I drove in this nail 

 I shoved the other end of the strip of wood strongly 

 toward the post until my eye was satisfied with the 

 shape of the curve, whereupon it was secured by 

 nails driven through the strip into the top running 

 board and by additional nails into the post. This 

 was repeated for each half of each bent, a 4 x 8 x 

 I in. weather block nailed on top of each post and 

 the fence stood completed. 



I might add that the saw cuts completely dis- 

 appeared on bending up the curves. 



Then "partner" got out her paint pot and put on 

 some $2.00 worth of Outside White. The lumber 

 bill was $20.07 itemized above, and I put in four 

 afternoons' work on it besides some additional 

 scraps of spare time. 



New York. Warren H. Miller. 



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