THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



selected. The raising of vines and climb- 

 ers is not alone excuse enough for its being. 

 You do not want it to look like a tangled 

 mass of greenery piled up in the most 

 prominent place in the garden, a damp 

 but cosey home for bugs and other insects. 



A pergola should lead to some object 

 like a summer-house, a bench, or a fountain ; 

 or it may connect one part of a garden with 

 another, or act as a screen, much as would 

 a hedge between a flower garden and the 

 kitchen garden. 



Flowering vines and climbers appear to 

 the best advantage when trained on the 

 posts and crossbeams of an arbor, and 

 the glimmering light and shade that plays 

 along this covered way makes it a charm- 

 ing feature of garden magic. The massive 

 and dignified pergolas seen in Italy are 

 generally made of large stone or cement 

 columns, with stout, rough-hewn or nat- 

 ural poles overhead. Often these columns 

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