THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT 



PERGOLAS. 



The Need for Restrained Design in Garden Woodwork French Influences Admirable Examples at 

 Easton Lodge Pergolas and Their Greenery Tea-house in Japanese Manner Rustic Work. 



IN all gardening of the formal type architectural details play a part of importance. The garden 

 designer must be, indeed, either a trained architect or a man who has a. very thorough acquaintance 

 with certain phases of architectural practice, if he is to deal with the formal garden in the right 

 spirit and to bring it into accord with the best traditions. It does not matter whether his design 

 is to be carried out solely in growing vegetation which has to be clipped and shaped into definite 

 and exactly calculated forms, or whether he proposes to associate trees and shrubs with structures in 

 stone or wood which will count as salient facts in his plan and contrast picturesquely with the foliage 

 in which they are set ; the architectural spirit must prevail, or the result will be weak and 

 unconvincing. 



This is certainly true of pergolas, and, indeed, of all kinds of wood construction in the garden, which, 

 whether plainly designed or fantastically and elaborately treated, must all have their due measure of 

 artistic intention. Their effect must be considered beforehand, and the way in which they will contribute 

 to the pictorial scheme which it should be the aim of ever} sincere garden-maker to work out must be folly 

 foreseen. Chance should scarcely come within the view of their designer, or, at all events, only to a very 

 limited extent ; his accidents must be premeditated and prepared for, carefully led up to by judicious 

 coMtiivances, and watched always in development lest, they should get out of control. 



196. PERGOLA AT EASTON LODGE. 



