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should follow all the varieties in the outline 

 of the plantation ; the lesser angles of lawn 

 may be filled with furze, fern, or brambles, 

 which all assimilate with the wood. 



Where the occasional thinnings are suffi- 

 cient to supply a fence as long as protection 

 is necessary, I should prefer a post and rail 

 to a hedge, as the boles of the trees, and the 

 recesses in the plantation, will be visible 

 through it. 



It may not be amiss to state, that a deer 

 fence surrounding a plantation is not required 

 to be of a greater height than one for general 

 purposes, as, except they are driven, the deer 

 will not leap into such an inclosure. The 

 fence of the new plantations in Richmond 

 Park is only four feet high ; and that at Cas- 

 siobury the same. 



Where a quick hedge is made the fence to 

 a plantation, it should follow the varieties of 

 the outline ; otherwise, those varieties will be 

 lost. The effect will be considerably assisted 

 by groups of thorns planted at different 

 distances from the hedge itself; thereby 

 relieving its uniformity of surface. 



The adaptation of the entrance lodge to 

 the residence has occasioned much discussion, 



