The Pergola. 



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so that unless the pergola is on a lower terrace and is seen from above, the beauty 

 of the mass of bloom is lost. There are also a number of shrubs and small trees 

 that can be adapted for pergola use, one of the best being laburnum. At West 

 Dean in Sussex there is a complete tunnel of laburnum with an ivy arch at the 

 two ends (Fig. 275). Among other shrubs that can be trained to the same use are 

 guelder roses, 

 Pyrus Mains flori- 

 bunda, snowy 

 mespilus, laurus- 

 t i n u s, common 

 laurel, Solanum 

 crispum and Robi- 

 nia hispida. 



The pleached 

 alleys of our 

 Tudor ancestors 

 have much in 

 common with 

 the pergola. 

 Columns, arches 

 and whole gal- 

 leries of shady 

 verdure, trained 

 on a founda- 

 tion of wooden 

 treillage, are de- 

 scribed by Bacon. 

 They were com- 

 monly planted 

 with hornbeam 

 or wych elm. 

 Treillage was also 

 used to a large 

 extent in French 

 gardens in the 

 eighteenth c e n- 

 tury, but it is only 

 now that it is 

 being revived in 

 England. In Fig. 

 274 is shown an ex- 

 ample by Mr. J. P. 

 White with walls, 

 arbours and rose 

 temples. 



There is still 

 earlier record of 

 something of the 

 pergola kind in 

 England, for in 



FIG. 272. AT ACREMEAD I PLAN AND SECTION. 



FIG. 273. STEPPED PERGOLA AT ACREMEAD. 



