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arbour, for its posts, though nearly of the same 

 height, are no two of the same size or distance apart, 

 being slim trees birch, cedar, maple, tulip, pine, 

 and chestnut, with the bark left on. These he has 

 bound together with the woody vines of wild grapes 

 from the grove above the house, where they reach 

 up sometimes thirty or forty feet into the trees, with- 

 out branching, and then loop and twist themselves 

 into huge grotesque knots. An ox yoke, found in 

 an old barn, and venerable with lichens, makes the 

 entering lintel of the roof, also woven of grape vine 

 and curved branches. 



Already the effect is of a path cut trail-fashion 

 through thickset trees, and when to complete the 

 plan it shall be covered with native vines meshed 

 carefully in and out, bittersweet, clematis, coral 

 honeysuckle, Virginia creeper, frost grapes, bind- 

 weed, climbing hemp, wild yam, and even catbriar, 

 it will be quite unique, a bit of wild "pleached 

 alley " conceived and born in the garden of a 

 commuter's wife. 



The September garden has flowers all its own that 

 have more of the personality that mark those of May 

 and early June. 



