STATUARY, TREILLAGE AND GARDEN FURNITURE. 



chains would swing in the breeze and so chafe and tear the climbers, but this may be 

 prevented by fixing the centre of each length to a neat stake driven into the ground. 

 A variation of this arrangement, which will suggest many others, may be obtained by 

 erecting a low trellis fence about three feet high and carrying the posts up a further 

 four feet and suspending chains between them, the centre of the chain being attached 

 to the top rail of the fence. 



Such screen fences of trellis, arches or rose festoons need not necessarily be in straight 

 lengths. In the chapter on kitchen gardens we have shown how effectively they 

 may be used in a circle round 

 the dipping well, with seats backed 

 against them and arches over the 

 pathways approaching the well 

 head. They may also be used in 

 a semi-circle to give an apsidal 

 recess round a semi-circular seat, 

 and other cases will occur, such 

 as a semi-circular arrangement of 

 flower beds at opposite ends of a 

 lawn, which will need the shelter 

 of a curved fence of trellis work. 



Traditional French treillege, 

 which is a highly elaborated form 

 of trellis work for interior decor- 

 ation, has been mentioned in con- 

 nection with conservatories, where 

 it is generally used. It is too highly 

 decorative for general use in the 

 garden, but its simpler forms may 

 sometimes be employed effectively 

 in relieving the bare walls of the 

 courtyard to a town residence 

 when they are viewed from the 

 principal windows. The ornament 

 must however be severely restrain- 

 ed, and the scrolls, perspective 

 panels and rococo work which 

 characterise the original examples 

 should be omitted as too flam- 

 boyant for use out-of-doors in the 



English climate. As in all the other trellis illustrated, the effect is sought rather in 

 the disposition of the parts and the spacing of the laths than in supcradded adornment. 

 Such trellis could only be graced by the lighter climbers, which would not hang in thick 

 enough masses to obscure the design or strain the thin and delicate laths which are 

 essential to it. To prevent a bare effect, trees in tubs would be placed in front of it 

 at intervals, varieties which bear a profusion of brilliantly coloured flowers, and which 

 have a long flowering season being chosen in the case of a town garden. 



Such tubs, of which designs are given in illustrations Nos. 223, 224 and 225, are 

 essential to the success of a town garden in a small courtyard, where it is necessary to 

 obtain the greatest amount of bright colouring at all seasons, and there is not room for 

 plants which are not actually in flower. The vases previously described are, of course, 

 indispensable, but they cannot be included in great numbers without over-elaboration, so 



FIG. 221. ROSE ARCHES OF LARCH WOOD. 



Treillege. 



Wooden 

 tubs. 



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