A GARDEN IN VENICE 



Then there is wood sawn, and worse bepatterned. 

 I was asked last year what should be done with 

 such a one, that reminded me in the fashioning 

 of its woodwork of decoration used in the South 

 Sea Islands, and I curtly said, "Take it down." 

 Two days afterwards I found it gone. There is 

 some pleasure in giving advice that you are asked 

 for if, when its worth is recognised, it is so 

 quickly acted on. The other forms of pergola 

 that I know, and that are practical and lovely, 

 may be seen, amongst many other places, at 

 Amain, Gravosa, and Venice. 



At the convent hotel of Amain there are 

 (happily not touched by the earth-slip of three 

 years ago) large square columns built of stone and 

 mortar with big wooden beams overhead. This 

 solidity was very suitable to a place that might 

 slip, and nothing can be more lovely than the 

 effect of the heavy old grey-white pergolas 

 from under the vines of which one looked 

 along the terrace that stands hundreds of feet 

 above the pretty Italian town and harbour, 

 and the bright blue sea dotted with dots of sails 

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