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wainscot oak, i inch square, framed into 

 chequers, 6 or 7 inches square, and covered 

 with roses, jessamine, and honeysuckle, or with 

 Hme, elm, or hornbeam. Evelyn describes a 

 cupola in Sir Henry Capell's garden at Kew, 

 " made with pole work, between two elmes, 

 at the end of a walk, which, being covered by 

 plashing the elmes to them, is very pretty." 

 James gives a plate of designs for this work 

 which are not attractive. It was costly and 

 very soon fell out of repair, and was abandoned 

 without much loss to the garden. Plain 

 wooden arbours of planks or stout oak fram- 

 ing are often shown in old views of the 

 seventeenth century, but no instances remain 

 except one at Canons Ashby, which might 

 date from the end of the seventeenth century. 

 These were different in intention from the 

 garden-house, as they were only made to 

 shelter the garden-seat. There are two 

 eighteenth - century instances at Melbourne. 

 Worlidge says that the seats should 

 be of wood, painted white or 

 green, and set in niches in the 

 garden-wall, or at the end of 

 garden walks. They might be 

 circular or square in plan. In p,^ '.. 



the first case, half the circle 

 would be inside the niche, the other halt 

 outside it, covered in by a cupola with a 

 cornice on three or four columns of wood or 



