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posts, the lowest three feet from the surface, and the other two 

 feet higher, may surround the whole ; and each particular tree 

 in the group may be defended with lath, bark, or furze, for 

 thirty or forty inches high. This will completely exclude the 

 larger cattle, and admit the sheep only to pasture in the group. 

 Such a group, with the outer fence painted of a dull green, and 

 the inner ones made of bark, something near the colour of the 

 trees, and the sheep pasturing among their stems, ivould not be 

 known, at a very small distance, to be fenced at all. Single 

 trees, or two or three planted in one hole, may be guarded from 

 cattle and sheep by a triangular fence, composed of three up- 

 right posts, and a number of short horizontal pieces fixed to it, 

 inclosing the tree in the centre. When trees are planted of a 

 very small size, the guard should be made of considerable 

 width, so that the cattle may not reach over, and crop their 

 tops. These forms of fences may be combined and varied in 

 many different ways. Hints may be takeir from them, and 

 new kinds composed, suited to every situation and cir- 

 cumstance. 



Whatever gives the idea of restraint in landscape should be 

 carefully avoided ; for this reason, all fences must be managed 

 in a manner analogous to what is called keeping under in paint- , 

 ing. If they must appear, let their colour be such as w r ill not 

 attract the eye: when paint is bestowed on them, let it be al- 



