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by one at least of these treillage galleries and see what 

 further surprise awaits us (Fig. 70). 



In the same way, in a large garden, we can understand 

 that a modified representation of Fig. 7 1 would appeal to 

 the curiosity of a visitor. Not only should we wish to 

 walk through the central arch and see what was hidden 

 behind this half-circle of treillage, with its two high obelisks 



FIG. 70. 



at either side, but we should anxiously look through each 

 of the window-frames, with the high obelisks on the top 

 and the supporting uprights. The eight windows thus 

 obtained would no doubt each surround a different colour 

 scheme, to be accentuated by means of the enclosing 

 frames. Here would come in the art of the garden 

 designer and colour-painter, not the architect. Such 

 treillage- work needs skilful planting, for it would never 

 do to leave it standing up bare and without the softening 

 effect of well-chosen creepers. Then, too, the scheme of 



