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How to Make a Flower Garden 



a deal of courting has been done under its gracious protection. The ordinary 

 grape arbour, however, is a rather flimsy structure, which gives way under 

 the eager feet of the small boys who steal over the back fence the first day 

 the green grapes begin to purple. In the winter its frame is usually gaunt 

 and cheerless. The pergola, however, is the delight of American architects 

 to-day, and no great estate is complete without one — at least, wherever 

 formal gardening is anything of a feature. There is a beautiful pergola 

 at Arlington, near the nation's capital, where one may rest and ponder 

 rpon the great spectacle of the army of the dead. 



VI. A Bit of Nature's Gardening 



By W. C. S. 



The picture below shows . an old, long-abandoned flour-mill in the 

 beautiful valley of St. Helena, Napa County, California. At certain times 



A bit of Nature's gardening — an abandoned mill covered by native vines 



