222 GARDEN PLANNING 



The diagonal pattern has come to be so com- 

 mon that most gardeners accept it without 

 question, but where much treUis is used it 

 looks better arranged with the laths vertical 

 and horizontal. 



If the gardener is handy with his tools, and 

 blessed with sufficient leisure, he may try his 

 hand on "woven trellis," using cleft oak laths 

 and working on the plan illustrated in Fig. 57. 

 He must design his squares of sufficient size 

 to admit of bending the laths without difficulty, 

 and he should pin them at their crossings with 

 oak pegs. A trellis of this kind will not re- 

 quire to be painted, and it has a character of 

 its own which raises it far above the machine- 

 made article. 



I need hardly add that the interlacing may 

 be omitted and the laths joined up in the 

 ordinary way, using either oak pegs or galvan- 

 ized nails. 



Hedges — We may consider hedges as liv- 

 ing fences. They not only serve to mark the 

 garden boundary and the subdivisions of the 

 garden, but they materially assist us in the 

 garden picture. I know of no better back- 

 ground for a wide herbaceous border than a 



