een to straightwayfill up the brook with concrete, to tear up the oldhedge by the roots and build a staring red brickwall topped with a cast-iron catalogue-railing withcast-iron gate and posts in the centre to match, andat a total cost for which the old fence could havebeen adapted a dozen times… … COTTAGE AND GARDEN DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.LEA. any particular practical purpose or from a merelust for destroying beautiful things, but rather froma sort of ingrained convicuon that no English-mans house is complete until it is surrounded bya brick wall or a cast-iron railing.…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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