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and the size of the owner s purse, and chiefly because it is as beau 

 tiful as it is useful and healthful, the pergola will not soon, if ever, 

 disappear from this land of its adoption. A happier day is dawn 

 ing for Americans if they, like the Italians, may be enticed out of 

 houses through leafy pergolas to spend more of every day under 

 the open sky. 



