THE PERGOLA AND AKCH 23 



Simple and unostentatious were the early gar- 

 dens, for not until 1750, was there found any trace 

 of garden architecture in the North. It was about 

 that year that one Theodore Hardingbrook, came 

 to this country bringing with him a fund of infor- 

 mation to strengthen and enlarge this line of work. 

 He gathered around him a faithful, interested lit- 

 tle band of students, and taught them new ideas, 

 and awakened an ambition for new designs in Co- 

 lonial flower plots. Then was evolved the little 

 summer house with its cap of green, which stood 

 generally at the foot of the garden path ending 

 the central walk and it was then that the green 

 arbor came into existence, spanning the centre of 

 the Little plot. Covered with vines it made a pleas- 

 ant break in the otherwise straight lines of the old- 

 fashioned garden, and it also gave a touch of old- 

 world gardens to the new- world plan. 



This was not the commencement of pergola con- 

 struction, which had its origin in the vineyards of 

 sunny Italy. They were not like those of to-day, 

 wonderfully beautiful in design but rude and rus- 

 tic, roughly put together as a support for the vines. 

 Through the intersecting crevices fell glorious clus- 

 ters of pale green and royal purple grapes, to ripen 



