CHAPTER II 



THE PERGOLA AND ARCH 



"I HAVE made me a garden and orchard, and 

 have planted trees and all kinds of fruit." Thus 

 spake the V7ise Solomon vpho in all his glory found 

 time to enjoy his flowers. Nowadays, blossoming 

 plants are intermixed with marble fragments, and 

 the garden contains many interesting features that 

 were then unknown. Sir William Temple, on his 

 return from a visit to Holland, where he went for 

 garden study, tells us that he found that four 

 things were absolutely necessary in order to com- 

 plete a perfect garden. "Flowers, Fruit, Shade, 

 and Water." 



Originality is to-day the key-note in every gar- 

 den design. Gardens have been developed with 

 the passing of time so that instead of one type we 

 find an infinite variety of styles, each one of them 

 so distinctive that one need have little fear of repi- 

 tition in results. Here we find the formal, the Ital- 

 ian garden while over yonder is the wild, and the 



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