CHAPTER VI I. 
NEIGHBORING IMPROVEMENTS. 
Small is the worth of beauty from the light retired.”— Tennyson. 
T HERE is no way in which men deprive themselves of 
what costs them nothing and profits them much, more 
than by dividing their improved grounds from their 
neighbors, and from the view of passers on the road, 
by fences and hedges. The beauty obtained by throwing front 
grounds open together, is of that excellent quality which enriches 
