STATUARY, TREILLAGE AND GARDEN FURNITURE. 



Trellis for 

 covering 

 walls . 



Openings 

 in trellis 

 screens . 



Rose 

 arches . 



Rose 



screens. 



varying circumstances, while some of the garden plans illustrate uses to which it may 

 be put, as, for instance, in screening cropping ground from the tennis lawn in the 

 writer's own garden (Illustration No. 380). 



Trellis for covering blank walls is generally best made in perfectly plain squares 

 about nine inches between the laths both vertically and horizontally, and of course the 

 framing may be lighter than when it has to stand alone. Unless it is made of oak, it 

 ought to be so fixed as to be easily removable from the face of the wall, as far as may 

 be without tearing the stems of the climbers, in order that it may be repainted at 

 intervals, and, if the wall is distempered, as so many roughcasted walls are, this will be 

 still more necessary as lime distemper is very injurious to the foliage, besides looking 

 very untidy when splashed on it. 



An opening in a trellis screen to allow a path to pass through it always provides 

 the opportunity for an effective arrangement. It is very rarely that the screen itself 



is high enough to allow of the open- 

 ing being cut through it, and so an 

 arch has to be formed over the path. 

 The central part of the pergola in 

 illustration No. 192 will show how 

 this may be done in wood, while the 

 rose arch in illustration No. 219 

 indicates how an iron arch may be 

 contrived with happy effects. 



Rose arches may of course stand 

 alone very effectively, and if a series 

 of them cross a straight path at 

 intervals of eight or ten feet, we 

 reproduce the old-fashioned rose bower 

 in its best and most satisfactory form. 

 The iron and wire arches one so often 

 sees are, however, extremely unsatis- 

 factory things, not only because they 

 are flimsily-made and soon lose their 

 shape, but also from the fact that, 

 iron being a rapid conductor of heat, 

 roses and other climbers are checked 

 in their growth by the coldness of 

 the material which supports them. 

 Such an arch as that shown in 

 illustration No. 220, although formed 

 partly of iron, is not open to this 



objection, for, by the time the roses reach the iron archbars, they are well established in 

 vigorous growth, and are not affected to the same extent by the change from wood to 

 iron. Illustration No. 221 shows a simpler arrangement constructed entirely of 

 unpeeled larch. 



Illustration No. 222 shows another way in which arches of this kind may be used to 

 form a screen instead of trellis. In this case they are placed side by side instead of one 

 behind the other, and probably a better method still would be to place them further 

 apart and hang light chains between each two, on which to train the climbers. 



Another fence of the same kind can be contrived by simply erecting posts at intervals 

 of say ten feet, and hanging chains between them, the whole being clothed as densely 

 as possible with climbing roses, honeysuckle or clematis. It may be objected that the 



FIG. 22O. ROSE ARCHES OF IRON WITH OAK POSTS. 



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