Unluckily there still prevails a very old-fashioned tendency to treat the front fence as in itself ornamental and to forget two things: First, that its nakedness is no part of its ornamental value; that it would be much handsomer lightly clothed-underclothed-like, probably, its very next neighbor; clothed with a hedge, either close or loose, and generously kept below the passer's line of sight.
"The Amateur Garden"
George W. Cable