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CHAPTER IV. 
BOUND GARDEN. 
Another very pretty garden plan is to have a 
round piece fenced in as I described, with the 
sticks set crossways, or with a wire fence, which 
is excessively nice,* only that we cannot make it 
ourselves. When we have a cross fence I think 
the garden should be laid out on turf — anything 
rustic, like that rough sort of fence, looks best with 
grass — -just as we may put a bark flower-box out 
upon the lawn, but it would not do well to have it 
in the house, or on a marble terrace. If you want 
to have your gardens really nice, and made in good 
taste, you will be very careful to have things that 
look suitable to each other . 
In whatever way the fence may be arranged, 
(and a wire fence does look exceedingly well both 
on grass and gravel,) the first thing should be to 
plant things to climb on it. This we will speak 
of in describing the work for March. 
My own idea for such a circular garden would 
