THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



put. There are dozens of minor uses. A portable porch-screen 

 may be constructed by taking a box shaped like a window-box 



(4 ft. x 1 x 1 is a good 

 , ____ __ ^^_ ^ size ) and Pitting in the 



centre a lattice four feet 

 high and planting in it 

 English ivy or some other 

 vine. Such boxes, set side 

 by side, serve for a tem- 

 porary hedge to a walk, 

 as a porch-screen, or for 

 many other uses. 



The common three- 

 rail fence may be trans- 

 formed into a very credit- 

 able residential fence (and 

 a hen-proof one besides) 

 by making an "appli- 

 que," as needlewomen say, of lattice, using the rails as a foun- 

 dation and then planting nasturtiums. I have seen a very 

 charming fence of morning-glories 

 of which the foundation was an 

 ordinary barbed-wire fence upon 

 which was made a lattice of com- 

 mon brown string. 



These are a few of the varied 

 capabilities of this useful form of 

 garden handicraft. It is no new 

 thing, the lattice. It is almost as 

 old as gardening. Yet among the 

 many devices that have come into 

 use since a man and a woman were 



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Lattice arch for a doorway 



Portable screen of latticework 



