One of the greatest disfigurements to the landscape as one looks out the
back window of the average house is the row after row of unsightly
wooden fences which rigorously mark off each twenty-five or thirty feet
of land and constitute a barrier of exclusiveness very chilling in its
effect on one’s friendly disposition. Of course one does not want his
neighbor’s children to tramp unceremoniously over his little flower or
vegetable garden, but could not the same results he brought about by a
simple wire division covered with virginia creeper, grapes or clematis?
Think of the beauty of such an outlook, and the aesthetic humanizing
effect such a display of floral wealth would have on the minds of young
and old! It might possibly result also in breaking down some of that
proverbial coldness and hauteur which is said to characterize city
neighbors. Life is short at best and sufficiently lacking in familiarity
and cordiality to warrant some attempt to reform the wooden back fence
out of existence.