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Rh sophistication instead of the guileless look it should have. Then there is the ‘Bundle of Reeds Screen Fence,’ the ‘Double’ and the ‘Triple’ stage one, and the ‘Nightingale Screen Fence,’ which are all allied in style to their namesakes which surround the garden; the ‘Leaning Plum Tree,’ the ‘Round Window,’ the ‘Looking Through,’ and the ‘Peeping’ kinds, are variations of those with openings. Of the different sorts, with their various modifications and combinations, it would not be hard to make up a list of a hundred kinds.

In between fences and hedges might be placed the open palings of bamboo which serve the double purpose of fence and trellis, and which, with their network of creeper covering, often have the look of hedges. They are delightful, informal-looking affairs, not appropriate for the boundaries of big and imposing gardens, but very charming around the smaller and perhaps more cheerful sorts. Moto Hakone has several, overrun with Morning Glories and the crimson stars of Cyprus Vines. Sometimes one sees them with Wistaria, but this would be the higher kind, not the little ones two or three feet high that are most frequently seen. I have noted them, too, covered with the glowing orange of Bignonia, but that also would soon need a tall trellis to show off the splendours of the blossoms.

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