TREILLAGE 



WHEREIN ARE INCLUDED TRELLIS, PERGOLAS, PERSPEC- 

 TIVE TREILLAGE, GALLERIES, AND VISTAS 



IT is only of late years that this style of work has 

 become at all generally known in England. Germany 

 and Holland have always made it a very important 

 feature of their gardens; but France was the country 

 where it attained most consideration. In 1769 treillage 

 was officially recognized as a craft, and was put under the 

 Corps de Menuisiers. It is worthy of artistic treatment, 

 and we hope this fact will soon be realized, and that our 

 public parks may set an example and use more of such 

 work, so that inspiration may come to the owners of 

 private gardens. 



At present only important houses in London possess 

 perspective treillage, and a limited number of large country 

 places have treillage galleries and temples. The difficulty 

 up to now, perhaps, has been that the craft is in the hands 

 of one or two large firms only, who have to pay skilled 

 artists to design patterns. Hence the heavy cost of each 

 treillage garden feature. 



Before going farther it will be advisable to explain that 

 by the word " treillage " we understand the more impor- 



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