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With respect to wooden fences or rails, it is hardly necessaryto say, that the less they are seen the better; and therefore adark, or as it is called, an invisible green, for those intended tobe concealed, is the proper colour; perhaps there can hardlybe produced a more striking example of the truth “ that what-ever is cheap, is imptoperj'or decorations,” than the garish osten-tation of white paint, with which, for a few shillings, a wholecountry may be disfigured, by milk white gates, posts, and rails.