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and the size of the owner's purse, and chiefly because it is as beau- 

 tiful as it is useful and healthful, the pergola will not soon, if ever, 

 disappear from this land of its adoption. A happier day is dawn- 

 ing for Americans if they, like the Italians, may be enticed out of 

 houses through leafy pergolas to spend more of every day under 

 the open sky. 



