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or conifers specially lend themselves, being equally 

 beautiful in form and colour at all times of the 

 year. 



PERGOLAS. 



Pergolas are now the fashion, so we see Pergolas 

 wherever we go ! but too often they are built in so 

 unsuitable and so obtrusive a position that we 

 could wish them removed. These arcades can be 

 made very lovely, but they lose their loveliness if 

 they have the appearance of being forced or un- 

 meaning ; they are never suitable, in my opinion, 

 across a path in the kitchen-garden, for they give 

 too much shade to be healthy for the vegetables. 

 They should, if possible, lead to some pretty opening 

 in the garden, or to some favourite seat. The idea 

 of a Pergola is to shade one from too much sun ; 

 but, alas, in England we do not often get too much 

 sun ; therefore you must be careful not to put your 

 arcade so that it should spoil your most bright and 

 sunny walk, making it useless for the colder and 

 damper seasons of the year. What can be more 

 unpleasant than to go out soon after a summer 

 shower, and feel the drip, drip, from roses and vines 

 falling heavily upon you? I think that a short 



