The line of separation between the park and the lawn is rendered very offensive, from a circumstance apparently too trifling to be mentioned, but which, nevertheless, is in practice a matter of some importance. The separating fence is of wire, and the lower wire is so near the ground as to prevent the mower from passing his scythe under it, and thus mowing the grass as smooth for a few inches without the fence as it is within. Not having been able to do this, the grass in the line of the fence is necessarily left to grow up, and neither being cropped by the cattle without, nor cut down by the scythe from within, it has risen among the wires, and forms a kind of grass hedge, which altogether destroys the effect of invisibility, or rather inconspicuousness, which is intended to be produced by the wire fence. The sight of this fence, and the study of the piece of water in the shrubbery, are the two lessons which the gardener may learn by visiting South Lodge.
