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How to lay out a garden : intended as a general guide in choosing, forming, or improving an estate, (from a quarter of an acre to a hundred acres in extent) with reference to both design and execution (1860)

Kemp, Edward, 1817-1891 · New York : Wiley · leaf 200

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grow low upon the stem; and ironhurdles may often be useful to inclose a group of three or fournewly-planted trees. Where a permanent fence round single trees in a field would FENCES. 163 be considered an eye-sore, this may be dispensed with by plantingaround the base of the tree irregularly, and… … Fig. 108. own course, these plants will, after a few years protection,become quite sufficient guards to the trees, and will have rathera picturesque effect. Unquestionably, however, they willdetract from the symmetry and dignity of the tree. That the colour of fences is by no means unimportant,…

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