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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



cutting off by a hedge a playground from the garden or pleasure 

 ground, as is done at Madresfield and Campsey Ash and many of the 

 older gardens ; and what is used generally is the yew or holly, but 

 clipped hedges give little shade and no flowers. Now, in the like 

 position, if we adopt the pergola, we get shade, and many graceful 

 flowers. Clematis, tall roses, wistaria, and almost every beautiful 

 climber could be grown thereon, some better than on walls, because we 

 can allow more abandon than on walls, and it is not at all so easy to 

 crucify vine or climber on a pergola. We can have evergreens too if 

 we wish, with garlands of handsome ivies among them, and players 



Chambers Court, Tewkesbury. From a photograph sent by Mrs. Ward, Tewkesbury. 



might rest in the shade and lookers on sit there to see the play. 

 Various bold openings should be made on the play lawn side, and the 

 whole so arranged as to be a sort of living cloister. Well done, 

 the structure might be, apart from its shade and coolness and use as 

 a dividing line, a garden of a very graceful kind, while the recent 

 hot seasons lead one to think that the Italian way of putting a roof of 

 vine leaves between one's self and the sun is worth carrying out in our 

 own country. 



Pergolas have various uses in covering paths which are too much 

 exposed to the sun, and are a great aid in the garden, and there is no 

 better way of growing beautiful climbing plants than a green covered 



