CHAPTER XIX 
GARDEN BOUNDARIES 
“ A garden fair . . . with Wandis long and small 
Railed about, and so with trees set 
Was all the place ; and Hawthorne hedges knet. 
That lyf was none walking there forbye 
That might within scarce any wight espy.” 
— Kings 'uhair , King James I of Scotland. 
NE who reads what I have written 
in these pages of a garden enclosed, 
will scarcely doubt that to me 
every garden must have bounda- 
ries, definite and high. Three 
old farm boundaries were of neces- 
sity garden boundaries in early 
days — our stone walls, rail fences, 
and hedge-rows. The first two seem typically Ameri- 
can ; the third is an English hedge fashion. Through- 
out New England the great boulders were blasted to 
clear the rocky fields ; and these, with the smaller 
loose stones, were gathered into vast stone walls. 
We still see these walls around fields and as the 
boundaries of kitchen gardens and farm flower gar- 
dens, and delightful walls they are, resourceful of 
beauty to the inventive gardener. I know one lovely 
garden in old Narragansett, on a farm which is now 
the country-seat of folk of great wealth, where the 
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