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wall or hedge through which they admit. 
Either demands the other; and the garden de- 
mands both. Each must be in scale with the 
other, too — and with the house and the place 
generally as well, conforming to its delicate 
balance quite as nicely as the walks. Freak 
structures such as are sometimes built of cob- 
blestones are not suitable to the suburban gar- 
den, for the same reason that crude building 
materials are not appropriate for use in subur- 
ban houses. The bizarre and extraordinary 
has little merit anywhere, and none at all if it 
strikes a discord, as here. 
The adjustment of scale in building material, 
whatever is being constructed, is so largely a 
matter of feeling, however, of an extra sense, 
that I hesitate to offer advice concerning it. If 
one does not know, through this sixth sense, 
that an iron fence does not belong around a 
plot occupied by a deep-eaved, shingled cot- 
tage; that wire fencing is out of scale with 
buildings of masonry; or that a hedge is a weak 
retainer for large grounds and stone buildings, 
while a dressed stone wall overshadows a small 
place and takes interest from wooden build- 
ings, there is little to be gained by telling him. 
For in some other direction he will turn aside 
and do the wrong thing, it being impossible to 
