Wooden fences and rails

With respect to wooden fences, or rails, it is hardly necessary to say, that the less they are seen the better; and therefore a dark, or, as it is called, an invisible green, for those intended to be concealed, is the proper colour; perhaps there can hardly be produced a more striking example of the truth, that "whatever is cheap, is improper for decorations," than the garish ostentation of white paint, with which, for a few shillings, a whole country may be disfigured, by milk-white gates, posts, and rails.