THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



esque in a garden. All that is needed is 

 patience and care in pruning the trees into 

 an arched form. There are many quick- 

 growing varieties such as the willows, buck- 

 thorns, or even fruit trees, that readily lend 

 themselves to this treatment, and one would 

 have to wait but a few years before their 

 branches would be so thickly joined over- 

 head that the arbor proper could be re- 

 moved. The time required for this arbor 

 to build itself, as it were, will not discour- 

 age the true lover of ornamental gardening. 

 He knows that the enduring charm of a 

 garden does not come from things that are 

 planted for immediate effect. The pleached 

 alley previously described is the only form 

 of arbor where temporary construction is 

 permissible. 



No matter what form it may take, 



whether it is flat on top like a pergola or 



domed like a series of arches, the position 



of the arbor in a garden must be carefully 



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