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For a structure to nfford sliade, there cau be nothing 

 more appropriate, in most phices, than a simple skeleton 

 arbor, as shown in figure 44:, covered with a heavy mass 

 of some rapid grooving climber like Virginia Creeper, 

 Trumpet-vine, etc. If the pieces comprising the struc- 

 ture are put together with a view to replacing any when 



Fig. 87.— A RUSTIC SUMMER-HOUSE. 



they begin to decay, by taking out the old and slipping 

 in new ones, they may be kept up for an indefinite time. 

 Climbers however, that twine tightly around supports, 

 like the Bitter Sweet, would not allow this plan to be 

 carried out, but many others wiW. 



There are instances where something more pretentious 

 than the skeleton arbor is Avanted, such as a rustic arbor ; 

 figure 87, which represents a type of garden architecture 

 much liked when well made. In this six-sided arbor, 

 three of the sides at the back are closed, and the interior 

 surface of these as well as of the ceiling is covered with 

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