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THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT 



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\-anisliin,t, f so fast that its exportation was prohibited. In Italy treillage \\ as in full use as 

 a garden ornament as early as the fourteenth century. In Andrea Orcagna s fresco at the 

 Campo Santo at Pisa, painted about 1350, a festive company of ladies and gallants, apparent!} 

 just returned from the chase, sit laughing and singing under a group of orange trees, before 

 a background of trellis upon which oranges have been trained. Again, in Pinturicchio s picture 

 of &quot; Susanna and the Elders,&quot; the garden is shown surrounded by a low trellis wall and a hedge 

 of roses trained upon a lattice of gilded reeds. The very remarkable and rare book, printed by Aldus of 

 Venice in 1499, known as &quot; Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,&quot; abounds -in woodcuts of the gardens of the 

 period, with several designs for treillage and wooden arbours. Luini s superb &quot; Madonna of the Rose &quot; 

 in the Brera Ciallery, which was painted about 1490, shows a square lattice of reeds upon which the roses 

 forming the background are trained. 



In France the use of trellis dates from medieval clays ; an early illustration may be seen in the 

 beautiful illumination of the &quot; Romance of the Rose &quot; in the British Museum, dating from the latter part 

 of the fifteenth century, the finest illustration of a medieval garden extant ; the garden is divided in two 

 by a low fence with a high gateway in the middle ; both fence and gateway are of trellis. The unique 

 collection of drawings on parchment of French chateaux by Androuet du Cerceau, preserved in the British 

 Museum, are most valuable documents illustrating the great chateaux of Francis T. Many of the gardens 



185. TRELLIS-WORK AT CHANTILLY. 



