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and at the Priory near Stanmore. The 

 former, being entered by an enclosed court- 

 yard, leaves such extensive grounds on the 

 dress side, that the fence is lost amongst the 

 masses of trees and shrubs with which it is 

 adorned. The entrance to the latter, though 

 open to the park, is also completely excluded 

 from the dress side of the house : and, in a 

 pleasure ground of fifty acres, melting with 

 natural gradation into the scenery beyond, 

 no distinct line of fence is seen or required. 

 So also at Clumber, the only visible fence 

 is the terrace wall, which extends from the 

 house to the river, the latter then becoming 

 the separating line. When, however, a fence 

 is attached to, or seen from, a house of the 

 old character, I hold it essential that such 

 fence be of masonry, even where circum- 

 stances do not admit of a terrace. I was 

 much pleased to find my idea realized at 

 Cassiobury by a corresponding feeling ; and 

 I could not name a place where the effect 

 is more completely illustrated. 



Nor is it only in connection with houses 

 of the old school that I should recommend a 

 dwarf wall as the separating fence. In all 

 houses which approach to the consequence 



