FIG. 2l8. 



STATUARY, TREILLAGE AND GARDEN FURNITURE. 



" honeysuckle will climb readily, and show their preference for it over cold and 

 " uncongenial iron rods and chains of wire." 



' With the flexible laths, deep archways can be formed in the trellis division just 

 ' long enough to form a dark frame to the picture beyond. Or if a peep is required 

 ' here and there, a few laths can be cut and a bent piece or hoop of wood, circular or 

 " oval, inserted, forming an unglazed 

 " window in the trellis or hedge. Should 

 "it be desirable that the upper part of 

 " a high screen, or parts of it, be more 

 " open or only partially hide what is 

 " behind it, then the trellis can be cut 

 " into patterns more or less open as 

 " desired sometimes in panels, sometimes 

 "in a running pattern." 



In designing trellis for out-of-doors 

 use, it is first of all necessary to re- 

 member that it is to form a background or framework on which to display growing things. 

 While this does not prohibit the adoption of a design which shall be beautiful in itself, its 

 beauty must be of very unassertive order, or it will compete with that of the flowering 

 and foliage plants with which it is adorned, and so show evidences of bad taste and 

 ostentation in its arrangement. The accompanying designs (Illustrations Nos. 215, 216, 

 217, 218 and 219) will show exactly what I mean, and will supply material for adaptation 

 to the design of trellis screens for different sets of conditions. In designing trellis it 

 is also necessary to remember that in every case a sufficient number of both horizontal 

 and vertical pieces must be provided throughout the design for the support of the 

 climbers. Thus, any kind which, over a considerable area, has only vertical bars, would 

 prove unsuitable in practice. 



The cheap expanding portable lattice, which is such a poor and untidy material as 

 generally used, may make an exceedingly cheap and neat trellis when inserted in a strong 

 framing of pitchpine, with posts about three inches square and rails about three and a 

 half inches deep, and two and a quarter thick. It may also be combined with specially 

 made lattice or with riven oak spads in a variety of ways, and is particularly useful, 

 when framed up thus, for use in cottage gardens, if finished with four good coats of 

 green paint of good and lasting quality. % 



Trellis, of whatever kind, must of course be firmly fixed together at every intersection 

 of its members, not only to make it rigid and strong, but also to prevent warping. In 



the case of oak 

 trellis this may 

 be done either 

 with wooden pins 

 or copper brads. 

 Iron nails should 

 never be used in 

 oak as, immedi- 

 ately after the 

 first shower of 



rain to which the work is subjected, black stains will begin to appear round each. Copper 

 has not this effect. In square plain lattice, such as that which fills in the spaces between the 

 pillars in the pergola shown in illustration No. 388, oak pins are extremely effective and. 

 if made from absolutely dry and thoroughly seasoned material, are quite satisfactory. 

 Almost all the drawings for pergolas in this work show its effective application to 



FIG. 2I(j. 



Design of 



trellis 



screens 



165 



