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An advantage of a solid brick or stone built pergola is 

 that a rich and deep border can be made, if need be, 

 upon the top of the wide walls of stone. We are 

 assuming that, as at Gravetye, the covered way leads up 

 between two banks of stone-work, which are some four 

 feet high. From them, at intervals, spring uprights 

 that support the roof. Then climbers as in this border 

 have not far to travel before they reach the roof. It is 

 a speedy way for them to gain the top, since they begin 

 upon the wall four feet from the ground. The small 

 chinks, too, in the supporting walls can be used for rock 

 plants and ferns. In England we often see brick pillars 

 used ; but care must be taken to choose only a colour of 

 brick that will tone well with creepers, for a vivid picture 

 of bright red brick and a pale pink Dorothy Perkins 

 rose against it is recalled to memory. Almost a night- 

 mare garden was this ! Resting upon the scarlet pillars 

 were huge ungainly branches of trees. Had they been 

 left in their natural state, with bark upon them, they 

 might have passed unnoticed, but a fox-coloured, shiny 

 varnish had been smeared over them. Their appearance 

 was of that kind which is called " rustic," but, in truth, is 

 stamped in mind as " suburban." 



Many are the happy evenings spent by the garden-lover 

 in the ingle nook planning out a future garden. As the 

 great logs blaze, and then slowly, one by one, fall dying 

 into ash beside the tall iron dogs, we ponder over future 

 borders and pergolas. 



It is quite easy upon a drawing-board to erect a small 

 pergola as it will be in reality. We use little pieces of 

 wood, like matches, and fix them, by means of dabs of 

 sealing-wax, to represent upright posts. Thus they can 

 be grouped in twos and threes, and experiments can be 

 made as to the best way of spacing them. Horizontal 

 wood can then be laid across the tops, and an exact model 



