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proceeded with, but the hump-backed town houses admit of artistic 

 embellishments very unkindly indeed. What is to be done for 

 them ? Sometimes the builder, for an additional outlay, will 

 construct a balcony terrace, opening from the drawing-room window 

 by a glass door, and leading down to the lawn by a flight of iron or 

 stone steps. When you can have a handsome iron trellis of 

 ornamental design, over which to carry a vine or a small collection 

 of miscellaneous climbers, and with a few improvements above and 

 below, taste and ease may be satisfactorily gratified, and the house 

 fitted for the acceptance of what may be termed terrace ornaments. 

 If the situation and character of the house does not admit of the 

 builder's aid, refuge may be found in trellis-work, which certainly 

 has a transforming power as effectual as Harlequin's wand, and in 

 a manner at once simple and inexpensive. 



An example of this mode of using trellis-work, is seen in the 

 annexed sketches. The first presents us with a cluster of ugly 

 buildings : — A is the larder, adjoining the kitchen, B a scullery, O 

 a dog-house, D a back wall with door leading to a lane, E a stable, 

 and F an open space littered with straw, and the results of frequent 

 traffic between the several offices. 



To change the scene, there is no need to alter the buildings, for 

 the simplest lattice-work will effectually screen them from view 

 without robbing them of light and air, and the lattice becomes 

 additionally useful by covering it with climbing and twining 

 plants. 



In many cases a plain neatness is to be preferred to verdurous 

 luxuriance, yet the occasions will be few indeed where walls and 

 trellises will not need to be covered. A neat little country box 

 embowered in jasmine, honeysuckle, pyrus, and ivy, conveys an idea 

 of warmth, hospitality, and homely comfort ; and where a dwelling- 

 house has not a decidedly architectural aspect, it is all the better as 

 to beauty and the dryness of its walls, to be well ivied and screened 

 with greenness. Garden walls, outhouses, porticos, trellises, and 

 arbours, all need the touch of floral grace to make them complete; 

 and a judicious selection of such is another legitimate mode of 

 extending your growing space and your round of pleasures. 



For the fronts of houses, those two commonest of screens, ivy 



