1 86 Landscape Gardening 



good open glade of lawn, entirely free from plants, in another 

 and vivid light. 



6. Climbing Plants. — To furnish the means of growing 

 to perfection the very charming tribe of climbing plants, 

 beyond the always objectionable mode of training them to 

 poles, there will occasionally be places in a garden where a 

 small covered way, formed of wooden or wire trellis, can be 

 erected and rendered both ornamental in itself and fitted for 

 supporting a few choice roses, etc. Such an object may either 

 be attached to the front of a wall, and be open only at one 

 side, having a close roof, when it will be a good means of 

 disguising a blank wall and, if attached to the house at one 

 end, will make a dry and agreeable mnter promenade. Or it 

 may be in the shape of an arch, trellised all over and capable 

 of sustaining plants on its entire surface. It may serve as 

 a connecting link between the pleasure grounds and the 

 kitchen garden, or from the general garden into any retired 

 rosary, or flower garden, or other separate part, or even over 

 one of the common walks, where the shrubs close in upon it 

 on either side, and it will not be seen from the house. An 

 arch or pergola of this kind will be very useful and pleasing. 

 Wire is the most durable and wood the most effective mate- 

 rial for composing it, and may be worked into any shape. 

 It will possess more style if, in addition to the simple arch, 

 it assume without heaviness or intricacy some rather archi- 

 tectural form, in accordance with the character of the house. 



Anything in the form of a veranda, or an external corridor 

 put in the recess of a house, would furnish another means of 

 growing the better sorts of climbers; and would likewise, 

 especially in very hilly or picturesque localities, or with refer- 

 ence to any house that partakes of a cottage character, or that 

 would admit of such an accessory, assist materially in improv- 

 ing the outline and in creating effective masses of shadow. 



