10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUNK FENCE»
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sunk fence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sunk fence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Communications to the Board of Agriculture, on subjects ...
Ha-ba, or sunk Fence. (PI. I. fig. 4 )— The sunk fence is calculated chiefly for
fields that require no shelter, andwhere a uniform unbroken prospect is an object,
as is the case in gardens, and extensive lawns ; but in all situations where shelter
is ...
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, 1800
2
The Forester: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, ...
The sunk fence is one which, from its very name, is meant to be hidden. It is a
fence often to be met with upon noblemen's and gentlemen's estates of old
standing, and was a hundred years ago very much introduced in the laying out of
...
3
The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic ...
As stated in the heading of this article, it is simply a double sunk fence, and of the
following form and dimensions. The centre wall {fig- 87.) is 1 ft. 8 in. in thickness,
coped with two sods reversed, that is, laid on roots to roots, by which 87 means ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1828
4
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic ...
Mr. Middleton, gardener at Blythswood, had, in consequence of the ice-house
there not keeping ice well, dug two pits in a sandy bank by the side of a deep
sunk fence, in which he succeeded in preserving ice through the season. These
pits ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1841
5
The Practical Directory for the Improvement of Landed ...
A very pretty kind of sunk fence may be formed without incurring the labour and
expense of building a stone wall, by the arrangement as shown in fig. 3, Plate 37;
where a is the ditch, both sides of which, b and c, are grass-covered ; at the side ...
6
The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820
No sooner was this simple enchantment made, than levelling, mowing and rolling
, followed. The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be
harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from
...
John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis, 1988
to graves of difi'crent lengths, some pieces of it being one, some two, some three
or more yards long. The north and south end of the fragment of dike which had in
this way been torn from its base, formed a sunk fence, and the middle part; was ...
8
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic ...
As stated in the heading of .this article, it is simply a double sunk fence, and of the
following form and dimensions. The centre, wall {fig. 87.) is 1 ft. 8 in. in thickness,
coped with two sods reversed, that is, laid on roots to roots, by which means ...
J c. 1783-1843 Loudon, 2010
9
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
a ftraves of il iff rent lengths, some lieoes of it being one, some two, some hree or
more yarils long. The north ihI south end of the fragment of dike rhich had in tliib
way been torn from Is base, formed u sunk fence, and the nidtlle part was built of
...
10
The Planter's Kalendar, Or, The Nurseryman's & Forester's ...
The most common rule for the proportions of the Sunk Fence, on level ground, is,
that whatever be the depth of the facing wall, the length of the flope, from the
general surface of the field to the bottom of the facing wall, shall be twice its
height.
Walter Nicol, Edward Sang, 1812
