168 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



Mansart, brought this art to perfection, were only 

 elaborating a custom which seems to have existed 

 from the earliest days of garden-making. If we 

 accept the principle that gardens must be laid out 

 in orderly array, and that the outlines must be pre- 

 pared which Nature herself will fill in good time, 

 we are in need at once of an effective method of 

 setting out the garden and indicating its future 

 development. The light and inexpensive character 

 of trellis-work lends itself most readily to this 

 purpose, and its adaptability to almost any shape 

 enables us to raise a pattern in a few days of the 

 boundaries and features which will take years of 

 growth and attention to mature. 



From this practical use treillage has developed 

 into an even greater importance, and has come 

 to fill a complete department of garden design. 

 Practically every kind of architectural structure can 

 be imitated in trellis, and curiously enough the 

 imitation often adapts itself to the garden scheme 

 more perfectly than the original itself. A garden 

 enclosed by a trellis screen, with arches, pilasters, 

 arbours, etc., of the same material, may be made a 

 place of great delight, but it will depend very much 



