THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



embellishing, and no readier defense is to be had than some 

 form of lattice. In this matter of worrying the garden, the 

 most persistent offender is the clothes-line. The flowers come 

 and go, but every Monday the weekly wash appears, triumph- 

 ing over any effort of the garden. And yet a drying-yard is 

 so easily managed one marvels that it is ever omitted from the 

 plan of laying out grounds. Although other ways of screening are 

 practical and possible, a lattice is by far the quickest and most 

 effective. When shrubs are used, one has to wait several years 



before they are tall enough 

 to be adequate to the de- 

 mands of the situation; if wire- 

 netting and vines are tried, 

 these will only screen in the 

 summer-time, leaving the prob- 

 lem in winter where it was be- 

 fore. But with a lattice even a 

 slight growth of vines answers 

 the purpose, and the lattice it- 

 self, even unblessed by vines, 

 forms an excellent background 

 for any planting. If a doorway be made in the lattice wall, an 

 effect of distance and size will be given even to a small yard. 

 The structure should harmonize in color with the house and 

 should come up at least to the top of the lower windows. 



Another place where the lattice screen is valuable is on a 

 porch, where more seclusion is desired than one has. Here a 

 very slender lattice, enclosing the more exposed end, gives a 

 delightfully complete feeling of being shut off from street or 

 neighbors, and yet neither view nor air is excluded and the vine 

 growth may be of the slightest. If a doorway or window be 

 made in the lattice wall, nothing of the feeling of seclusion is lost. 



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Rose-trellis to form a screen 



