THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



house having a pointed domed roof of 

 rafters with open spaces between, whereas 

 the pergola is made up of a series of col- 

 umns or piers in a row, and is flat on top, 

 with beams or poles interlaced overhead. 



Pergola is an Italian word that was once 

 given to a variety of grape that grew in 

 Italy. Gradually this word was used to 

 distinguish the arbor upon which the grape 

 was grown, until the use of both grape and 

 arbor became so universal that the term 

 was applied to any covered way, whether 

 or not it was clothed with the vines of this 

 particular grape. The writer can recall 

 many country places where arbors of the 

 pergola type have been misused in such a ' 

 manner as to disgust any person who has 

 a knowledge of the fitness of things. 



The " Colonial arbor in a Salem garden " 



is a type that was very common in the old 



gardens of small New England cities and 



towns, and it is a happy combination of 



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