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burning tender shoots, as do the metal affairs, and 

 costing, if the material is bought and a carpenter hired 

 by the day, the moderate price of two dollars and a 

 half each, including paint, which should be dark green. 



Evan has made a sketch of it for you. He finds it 

 useful in many ways, and in laying out a new garden 

 these pillars, set at corners or at intervals along the 

 walks, serve to break the hot look of a wide expanse 

 and give a certain formality that draws together with- 

 out being too stiff and artificial. 



For little gardens, like yours and mine, I think deep- 

 green paint the best colour for pergola, pillars, seats, 

 plant tubs, and the like. White paint is clean and 

 cheerful, but stains easily. If one has the surround- 

 ings and money for marble columns and garden fur- 

 niture, it must form part of a well-planned whole and 

 not be pitched in at random, but the imitation article, 

 compounded of cement or whitewashed wood, belongs 

 in the region of stage properties or beer gardens ! 



The little plan I'm sending you needs a bit of ground 

 not less than fifty feet by seventy-five for its develop- 

 ment, and that, I think, is well within the limits of your 

 southwest lawn. The pergola can be made of rough 

 cedar posts with the bark left on. Evan says that there 

 are any quantity of cedar trees in your river woods that 



