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would make it perfect. Windsor chairs in an Eliza- 

 bethan garden or common pottery standing in an old 

 garden rich in stone work and lead figures is to me 

 an offence; it shows a lack of many things which we 

 will not here enumerate. ** Money," did you say? 

 Oh, no ! For a leakwood seat costs very little more 

 than a set of Windsor chairs and it lasts a life-time; 

 also stone vases or imitation stone vases can be picked 

 up as cheap to-day as the commonplace pottery. A 

 pergola, of course, is an expensive item if built of oak 

 or teakwood, but it is a lasting pleasure. Where the 

 garden is of an informal character, often far from the 

 house, or even when adjoining, full of trees and shrubs 

 and winding paths, then the rustic arch and pergola 

 is more in keeping with the garden. Further, the 

 rustic arch and rustic pergola is better suited to the 

 Rambling Rose, which more often than not is selected 

 by reason of its hardy and vigorous growth. Mr. 

 E. J. Preece, who has made a special study of rustic 

 work, has some very pretty designs, and there is 

 nothing common about his rustic fencing, arches, or 

 pergolas. You cannot call five shillngs dear for a Rose 

 arch or one shilling and sixpence per yard dear for 

 rustic fencing. The small grower to-day has far 

 greater opportunities of decorating his garden at small 

 cost than ever had the Rose growers of the past. 



Every Rose garden should have its arch or per- 

 gola ; if it does not, some of the best Roses cannot be 

 grown, and it loses a most important attraction. If 

 rustic arches or a rustic pergola be introduced into 

 the Rose garden, then let the summer-house be also 

 in the same style, and, like the arches, let it be 

 covered with Rambling Roses. I have included in so 

 many plans space and room for a sundial that I feel 

 it incumbent upon me to here make special mention of 

 this most interesting garden ornament. 



Watches are so cheap to-day that the sundial has 

 become almost altogether a thing of the past, so much 

 so that few owners of a garden ever trouble to have 



