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lattice, are excellent and inexpensive models for adaptation for our less formal 

 houses. They also have the advantage of being possible for the home mechanic. 



This last form may be constructed by building a round wooden shell about 

 an ordinary fence post set in the ground in the usual manner. This shell can 

 then "be wire lathed and rough plastered and a square 2-inch cap placed on top. 

 The lateral beams may be of 4" x 6" Southern pine set on edge, and the lattice 

 of rough cedar or birch poles from 2 to 3 inches in diameter, as the case requires. 

 These spaced 20 inches apart, running crosswise and projecting from 30 to 40 

 inches on either side of the beams, form a support for the lighter lateral strips 

 of like material. The best method of attaching the poles to the lateral beams is by 

 the use of hemp rope about the size of large clothesline or slightly larger. Inch 

 holes bored through the lateral beams under the bearings of the cross poles, 

 and about 2 inches below them, will serve as holes for the lacings. Use plenty 

 of rope and make parallel windings, and tie securely on top. It is well to dip the 

 rope in raw tar, that its lasting qualities may be increased, or perhaps a ready 

 prepared rope may be gotten. The ends of rope when tied may be secured to 

 the poles by means of small galvanised staples. Paint the ends of the poles a dull 

 red or ochre. Such a pergola might cost from 5 5 to Sio per post, and the beams, 

 poles, etc., about one-half more. It should be remembered that as the pergola is 

 intended as a support for vines any excess of architectural detail would be lost, 

 and that consequently the most successful types are comparatively simple. 



There is a well-founded superstition that there is no design to that good old 

 relic of Colonial days, the arbour. But although the bulk of the local examples 

 have evidently required little effort in their planning, there is enough outside of this 

 which suggests the charming simplicity of the Georgian period. This old-time 

 notion,. borrowed from England, and by the English from the Italian pergola, is 

 essentially a feature of the Colonial garden and serves but one purpose, that of 

 primal interests enclosing and shading a walk. It might perhaps be built with 

 inside lateral seats, if desired, at a slight increase in cost. 



The arbour, as will readily be seen, is a kinsman of the pergola, but differs from 

 it in the fact that the sides as well as the top are usually enclosed with lattice. 

 Thus entirely enclosed by vines, it frequertfly offers a pleasing method of traversing 

 uninteresting space to that which is more interesting. 



The common form has an elliptical roof. It might be built of 4 x 4-inch 

 uprights, 4 x 6-inch lateral beams or plates, with 2 x -inch lateral strips on top. 

 The elliptical ribs or rafters could be of i}-inch stock, and the side lattice of f or 

 } inch stock. Such might be constructed for $2 or upward per running foot. 



The trellis, once a hackneyed, and commonly an ugly, feature of the period that 

 has passed, has left to us enough that is suggestive of good to demonstrate that it 

 can be made a neat and simple feature of the garden of to-day. Ordinarily it was 

 a meaningless vertical contrivance of crisscross slats, but its possibilities are beyond 

 this. Although intended for the support of vines, and frequently used on either 

 side of the front door, it can be made of considerable length, and may serve as a 

 screen where such be needed. It belongs, perhaps more fittingly, to the Colonial 

 design, and will probably lend itself to more practical use under such conditions, 

 although it is more or less used in English work. 



