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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1912 
Stop That Burglar! 
From entering your windows by use of the 
“Ventilator” Sash Lock 
Can be 
used 
detached 
or 
attached 
to sash 
Size of lock, 1 24 x 2 inches, before adjustment . 
Securely locks any window, closed or 
open, to any extent for the purpose 
of Ventilation. 
Adjustable to any standard size window. 
A safeguard against accidents; invaluable 
for the nursery; to traveling men; in fact, 
to all those who through business or 
pleasure are compelled to submit to the 
insecurity of the average hotel it is 
indispensable. 
If your dealer cannot supply you, advise 
SECURITY LOCKS CO. 
25 West 42d Street, New York 
with name and address of dealer; or 
order direct with remittance. 
Price $.35 each; $4.00 per dozen. 
MORGAN 
GUARANTEED 
PERFECT 
HARDWOOD 
DOORS 
are used in the best homes, specified by architects who 
take pride in their work, and sold by responsible dealers 
everywhere—dealers who do not substitute. 
Write toda y for copy of “Door Beautiful." 
MORGAN CO., D E ep b h Oshkosh, Wis. 
,00k for this mark on the top rail 
Suitable for PERGOLAS, PORCHES 
or INTERIOR USE 
ELSTON and WEBSTER AVES. 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
Eastern Office: 1123 Broadway 
New York City 
Send for catalogue P 27 of Pergolas, sun dials and garden 
furniture, or P 40 of wood columns. 
HARTMANN-SANDERS CO. 
Exclusive Manufacturers of 
ROLL’S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS 
The common old type of high board 
fence is a telling feature in front of the 
small orchard or garden of small fruits. 
With it there are many chances for varia¬ 
tion. Boards may be of varying widths, 
perhaps laid an inch and one-half apart, 
the tops saw tooth or varying in height. 
The high price of wood, however, makes 
any extended use of this material for such 
purposes out of the question for most 
of us. 
While the stone wall has little chance of 
fitting into the front scheme of the small 
estate and the wooden house, it may be 
just the thing for the larger layout, and 
particularly in case the buildings sit well 
back from the street. As wood is always 
a material that seems to fit into close fel¬ 
lowship with the wooden structure, the 
wooden fence may be used here as an en¬ 
closure, independent of the fencing scheme 
of the highway. At all events, the remote¬ 
ness of the house naturally suggests a less 
elaborate outlay in the character of the 
highway barrier. 
Where the land is higher than the road¬ 
way, a stone retaining wall may be used 
and if the grade is not high enough to 
make a sufficient barrier of it, a surmount¬ 
ing motive may be added. Where your 
house is remote from the road, a picket 
fence makes a good supplement and al¬ 
lows of a view through it from the high¬ 
way. If the buildings are near the road, a 
hedge may answer the purpose or perhaps 
a wire or lattice fence, on which should be 
grown some sort of vine. The plain wire 
fence hardly comes into this discussion, 
but it may be used as a core of a hedge 
and thus establish its permanency. 
One may gather from the foregoing 
that nearness of the house to the highway 
demands privacy; its remoteness, open¬ 
ness. The important highway suggests 
more elaboration than that of the minor 
and remote road. Trees which shade the 
front yard limit the possibilities of your 
flower garden to such varieties as do well 
in the shade, and the litter that falls from 
them stains your fence and suggests any¬ 
thing but white paint. 
The tree itself may play an important 
part in the line of demarkation by suggest¬ 
ing boundary lines. While frequently sup¬ 
plemented by the fence or wall, it may be 
used alone, as with a driveway or lane. If 
such are newly planted, allowance should 
be made for their growth and expansion. 
The common fence on the rail principle 
in which the rail is a sawed board, makes 
an excellent auxiliary for maple and elms. 
Trees, however, take time to grow and the 
fulfillment of your feature may take years. 
The hedge offers many possibilities for 
front and interior barriers not afforded by 
the fence or wall. It is at once from its 
nature a part of the landscape and melts 
into it more readily than other more arti¬ 
ficial contrivances. If one is starting a 
hedge we advise strongly the incorporation 
of a wire fence in the center as a core. 
If it is to be a front barrier, and as such 
must be made to last indefinitely, it had 
best be made with iron or concrete posts 
in the manner already described. Any 
good mesh fencing or barbed wire strands 
will serve the purpose and perhaps the 
former will lend itself about as readily 
to our ends as a discourager of invaders 
as we could wish, provided a strand of 
barbed wire be just sunk in the ground 
and another stretched at the top. These ' 
last will dispose of the dog and the 
climber. The trespasser is a nuisance. He 
may have the best intentions in the world 
and yet he will insist on making a highway 
of your grounds. Have you a nursery of 
choice plants, he will find it; have you 
wasted a year over grape cuttings he will 
blunder into them; whatever you wish to 
preserve, he will destroy as if fated. Nip 
this in the bud; later it is hard to stop. 
We commonly understand the hedge to 
be of evergreen, spruce, hemlock, cedar, 
box or privet. As a matter of fact most any 
hardy flowering shrub will answer, pro¬ 
vided it be not located where its blossoms 
offer too much temptation to the public. 
Barberry and japonica are in themselves 
more or less difficult to penetrate, but 
there are the tough hided ox and the fool 
cow to be reckoned with. 
We have already spoken of the vine- 
clad fence, and as a quick-growing substi¬ 
tute for the hedge it is both interesting and 
effective. For the summer problem, one 
sees but little of the naked vine and fenc¬ 
ing and hence nothing is lost; but for win¬ 
ter, the snow-laden evergreen hedge has 
a charm of its own and even the deciduous 
article is more convincing than the skele¬ 
ton of loveliness offered by the clinging 
vine. 
Where one boasts of the kitchen garden, 
the low hedge is often effective as a defin¬ 
ing line; it may be utilized as a wind 
break as well. If the garden is small and 
to be spaded, one need allow only for the 
unloading of dressing and removal of lit¬ 
ter, but where the plot is large enough to 
plow, the ends should be left open to al¬ 
low of the turning of the plow team. Of 
course the board fence may be substituted 
for a wind-break or it can be used back of 
the low hedge in conjunction with it. 
The laundry yard is not a feature of the 
Colonial style, nor is it properly a part of 
any problem other than in the more elab¬ 
orate house. Even then it is properly a 
part of the house, as is also in a measure 
the enclosed front yard. When detached, 
however, it may be handled independently. 
The diamond lattice and the arbor offer 
our best suggestions for the above; it re¬ 
quires that, while serving as a screen, the 
air shall, at the same time, draw through it. 
Probably the most interesting feature of 
the fence problem is the gate or gateway. 
Its treatment is of wide latitude; its pos¬ 
sibilities almost without limit. One may 
evolve new ideas through a process of 
well-judged combinations, but whatever 
the result, it should be limited by the prin¬ 
ciples of good construction. Under all 
circumstances it should belong to the place 
in which it is used, suggesting either in 
line or detail the family resemblance to 
the all-important flanking harrier. 
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