Excerpt from Making Fences, Walls and Hedges An important use of fences and walls, more appreciated in Europe than here, is support for vines, fruit trees and other crawling plants. In England it is quite necessary to ripen some fruits, such as peaches, against walls. The additional sunshine and the heat radiated from the wall are responsible for the complete ripen ing of the fruit in a cool, damp climate. As in all other matters of designing, that is designing accessories for the house, the same principles apply for these fea tures. Appropriateness of style with the house, relation Of color and proportion, surface texture and the like; all these are important considerations. They are the connecting links between the purely nat ural features of the grounds or garden and the conventional and artificial fea tures of the building. They are the shad ings of expression between the formality of the house and the formality of the gar den Or the informality of the grounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.