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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
The sunken fence, fosse, or ha-ha, is an English in- 
vention, used in separating that portion of the lawn near 
the house, from the part grazed by deer or cattle, and is 
only a ditch sufficiently wide and deep to render com- 
munication difficult on opposite sides. When the ground 
slopes from the house, such a sunk fence is invisible to a 
person near the latter, and answers the purpose of a 
barrier without being in the least obtrusive. 
In a succeeding section we shall refer to terraces with 
their parapets, which are by far the most elegant barriers 
for a highly decorated flower garden, or for the purpose of 
maintaining a proper connexion between the house and the 
grounds, a subject which is scarcely at all attended to, or 
its importance even recognised as yet among us. 
