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BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 



Wherever a garden is divided into two or more sections arches 

 become appropriate. One may be established at the entrance to 

 each section. If a flower gardener cares to make several arches 

 along a garden path, and connect them by top and side pieces of 

 rustic wood, he can claim to have made a pergola. A pillar, in 

 the gardening sense, is any tall single upright. A stump is a 

 low, bulky portion of timber, with or without laterals, such as the 

 bottom part of an uprooted tree. Pillars are admirable in Rose 

 and other gardens. Particularly should they be 

 used in gardens where there is no pergola, but 

 only a few arches. Stumps will help materially in 

 breaking up stiff outlines. They form suitable sup- 

 ports for semi-climbing Roses, Ivy, and rambling 

 Nasturtiums. 



The arch is the most popular of the quartette 

 which we are now considering, and we may well 

 give a little special consideration to it. Broadly 

 speaking, garden arches may be divided into two 

 WIRE ARCH classes metal and wood. Quite a large trade has 

 A, arch ; B, iron spikes sprung up during recent years in arches made of 



of arch embedded A * 



in charred block of galvanised wire. One sees them stood outside the 



woodC. 



shops of ironmongers, forming a stock article, like 

 fire-grates and door-handles. They are made in various sizes, 

 and they cost only a few shillings each. Small wonder that 

 " Mr. Subbubs," whose mind has been much agitated as to the 

 adornment of his five-rod garden, and who has seen a photograph 

 of a flower-covered arch in a penny gardening paper which he 

 has bought, pauses, and eventually buys. 



We are not going to speak jocosely of the suburban wire arch. 

 It is not exactly natural ; it is more than a little stiff. During its 

 early days, before it becomes covered with verdure, it is admittedly 

 a somewhat harsh-looking and disagreeable object. But it serves 

 a distinct purpose. It provides people who are not in a position 



