38 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
cultivation was abandoned in the first. There were 
other fences, to be sure; an order of the General Court 
in this same year required all living in that part of the 
Colony to ‘‘rail, pale or fence” their tilled lands— 
which shows a recognition of three distinct kinds of 
inclosure. 
But Mr. Whitaker, one of the leading planters, 
“railed in” one hundred acres in 1621, as a protection 
to the vines, grain and other crops which were growing, 
or to grow, there. And from the ease with which rails 
could be obtained, compared to the difficulty of se¬ 
curing the less primitive materials needed for palings 
or board fence, they would obviously be most often 
chosen. Inclosures of wonderful beauty they make, 
too, with garlands of the wild morning-glory, the 
honeysuckle, grape and Virginia creeper strewn every¬ 
where upon them; and each recess crowded with its 
clustering wild flowers. 
The first dwellings of even the most prominent and 
wealthy planters were simple and plain in the extreme, 
mostly built of wood and having only the necessary 
rooms. What bricks were used seem to have been 
altogether of local manufacture, yet, in spite of their 
excellent brick clay and the ability to make bricks, the 
first all-brick house, according to tradition, was Secre¬ 
tary Kemp’s, built at Jamestown in 1639. Governor 
Berkeley built himself a brick house at Green Spring 
