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ing with the style of the house and grounds. A 

 white stone house with a light pillared verandah is 

 not suited by rustic arches: it requires to be seen 

 through vistas made up of arches as slender as the 

 verandah pillars, of painted iron-work preferably, 

 and the most telling contrast will be arranged if 

 there are numerous deep evergreen shrubs. 



"Rustic, or peeled oak, arches suit the modern 

 red brick villa style of house to perfection; the 

 trellis arch, being neat and unpretentious, is also in 

 excellent taste. The old-fashioned country cottage, 

 or the house built to imitate it, should not have 

 trellis-work within half a mile. Rustic .arches, or in- 

 visible ones of bent iron, are alone in keeping. By 

 an invisible arch, I mean one consisting of a single 

 bend of iron, or narrow woodwork upright with a 

 cross bar anything really that is intended only to 

 support some evergreen climber or close grower, such 

 as a rose that will hide the foundation at all seasons. 



"Arches simply built of rustic poles are more 

 pleasing than wire or lattice ones in any landscape; 

 and the roughness of the wood is beneficial to the 

 climbers that grow over them, affording an easy 

 hold for tendrils. Whether the wood is peeled, or 

 employed with the bark on the latter is the more 

 artistic method it is an admirable plan to wash it 



