Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-09

After all. they are the only ones
fence does keep out. Those determined
to get in will get in anyway, but the
careless, the Indifferent. whether they
be humans or dogs, will simply go
around.
A fence, then. is q diverter. or some
thing which diverts the thoughtless
footsteps of Others into the proper
channels of the public walks.
No one should take property owner
ship too seriously, but surely 1t should
mean something. A right of way over
private property should not be the right
of every one who chooses to take 1t.
The very English foundation of prop
erty comes down from Roman law.
Ownership ought to mean something
and 1t does mean something. Fencing
or hedging Is simply marking of what
one owns. That is all. If 1t has other
connotations they are entirely aside.
One OF these separate phases comes
with the formation Of pretty hooks.
| especially corners, where small statues
may be placed to advantage, a tree
planted or specimen shrub set out
Here, too, seat makes a useful and
beautiful garden adjunct.
Without the definite right-angle
marking of fence or hedge, corners are
lost in the welter of adjoining proper
ties. One runs into another without
any individuality. It is true that in
some places the sweep of the landscape
| is better kept by refraining from fenc-
| ing. Such cases are individual Per-
haps the best answer to the no-fencing
advocate is to point out that the largest
estates are those which are fenced the
most.
The small place, however, has even a
larger need for proper fencing. In the
great place a high fence is erected be-
cause of the very inability Of the owners
to personally oversee every nook of his
| property
A fence is put around a small place
| for exactly the opposite reason, that the
owner can very well overlook his entire
property, and demands that he be able
to see where his begins and another's
ends.
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The definition Of boundaries by q
border OF mixed shrubs is practiced In
the suburbs with much success The
mistake made here is in forgetting how
large many shrubs will grow within q
| few years.
1t is safe to say that most amateurs
plant lilacs and altheas too close
| IOSCtAACi. 10 IlOG SCOp realize
! that the former will grow 10 to IL feet
in five or six years and that altheas in
the course of the same time will be even
| taller.
Both the althea and the beloved lilac
grow to become trees in time. This
/ means that they not only will be high.
giving third dimension to the garden.
but they will spread out for many feet
in every direction.
| II one contemplates a mixed boundary
planting of these two shrubs or Of
similar things, he should never put them
closer together than 6 to feet. For
four or five years this distance will
seem too great, but after that the shrubs
Will mingle their foliage
| Such a fence, If fence it may be
called, will keep nothing or any one out,
but will serve simply to mark the
| boundary and to give that mental salts
| faction to an owner which only a well
oeflned boundary marking can give.
Rose hedges of the Rugosa variety
make good hedges, somewhat resembling
the barberry, which is so pleasing to
many persons. To the writer the bar
| berry is too sprawly, but that verv
characteristic makes it easy to care for.
requiring little attention. Its extreme
hardness makes it serve well MANY a
family. This is one hedge which NAV
! be set very close with good effect. MAX
Ing 1t appear thicker.