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by the eye. A low wall, tHrty inclies in height^ forming 

 a sunk fence two feet in depth, with two wires along the 

 top, affords a good cheap protection for plantations where 

 stones are abundant. 



Stone Walls are good permanent fences ; but on flat 

 or slightly undulating surfaces they often liide a con- 

 siderable breadth of view, especially when employed as 

 internal divisions. For plantations they are less objec- 

 tionable, as the trees overhang and veil them. They 

 are best suited for hilly and mountainous countries, and 

 in these they may be freely employed, as the objections 

 which may be made against walls in other places are 

 there less applicable. 



Hedges afford a cheap and ready sort of fence ; they 

 are not however, generally speaking, very suitable for 

 the park, for however neatly they may be cut and dressed, 

 it is needful, when they form the boundaries of clumps 

 or plantations, to keep the trees trimmed back, in order 

 to prevent them from injuring the hedges, and so they 

 impart a more formal and constrained outline to grow- 

 ing wood than almost any other species of fence does. 

 Hedges may be planted with good effect on the inside 

 of the boundary walls of the park, to clothe them when 

 they are not screened by plantations. 



