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pose better than if curved, and its width may 

 be more easily accommodated to that of the 

 narrower walk continuing from it than can 

 be effected on the latter form. When one 

 walk breaks off from another, it should be at 

 a right angle, thus avoiding a sharp point of 

 lawn between them, which it is difficult to 

 break by any shrub or other decoration. 



Having now planted the dress ground, 

 given it the last touches of decorative finish- 

 ing, and carried the walks through its varying 

 scenery, it becomes necessary to protect it 

 from the incursions of the cattle that graze 

 the pasture from which it has been taken. 



The observations I have ventured to make 

 a few pages back, express my opinion upon 

 the absolute necessity in many cases, and the 

 great utility in many more, of an architec- 

 tural fence between the dress lawn and the 

 country beyond it. As, however, there are 

 various situations to which those observations 

 will not apply, it becomes necessary to enter 

 more largely into the subject of fences. 



That the fence should vary with the charac- 

 ter of the place, might have been expected to 

 be generally allowed ; experience, however, 

 proves the contrary : we see the sunk fence, 



