NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XI 
By MARY H. 
RADUALLY fences are going out of fashion, and the 
less expensive and far more attractive hedge separa- 
tion is taking its place. Division marks between adjacent 
properties areas a rule desirable, and the ornamental hedge 
costing little and beautiful the entire year round, poss- 
esses certain meritorious qualities that are lacking in the 
fence division, no matter how finely built or fanciful it 
_amay be. 
In England, the use of hedges has been popular from 
the Early Ages, and all along the charming roadways and 
lanes one notices the natural growing sylva and flora in 
a riotous profusion of beauty and perfume. How differ- 
ent in our own land! Ugly stone walls in country dis- 
tricts, and low, severely simple granite curbings or in- 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, July 18, 1913 
Hedges and Their Use 
NORTHEND 
artistic fences in town and city localities form the boun- 
dary outlines and division marks. Such conditions are 
unnecessary. No matter how small the grounds surround- 
ing a house may be, they can be made attractive by a 
judicious planting of hedges and shrubbery, and indeed, 
the arrangement of the grounds is quite as important as 
the furnishing of the house, for no matter how finely 
built the latter may be, if it 1s ensconced in the midst 
of an inartistic setting, it loses the greater portion of its 
attractiveness. 
To be sure, hedges are now employed to some ex- 
tent throughout America, and it is probably but a ques- 
tion of time before their adoption will be quite universal, 
but the ugly curbing and fence separation 1s still seen 
BEAUTIFUL GARDEN OF HON. T. 
JEFFERSON COOLIDGE AT MANCHESTER 
