THE PERGOLA AND ARCH 31 



Rambler roses are one of the most effective treat- 

 ments for arbor or pergola growth, and the most 

 popular of these are the white, yellow, crimson and 

 pink. Each year new varieties are put upon the 

 market and if one wishes to follow the new ideas 

 they will be forced to constantly change the plants. 



In some cases, the pergola is used to form a trell- 

 ised pavilion or sununer house to shelter a marble 

 statue and again with carved setting to outline a 

 bed, as the central feature around which the flowers 

 are arranged. Thus the simple vineyard trellis 

 has been transformed into a gem of graceful con- 

 struction, and we find it to-day, with its slender 

 marble columns, supporting a delicately carved 

 marble roof of slabs, over and through which the 

 green of the vine, and the glint of the flower hover, 

 dipping down between the intervening sections, in 

 festoons of green and color. 



It can well be called a distinctive summer struc- 

 ture, for with the sun streaming through its mass 

 of vines, it shadows the walks from May until late 

 October. In the long winter months boxed in it 

 stands like a sentinel guarding the long, bare 

 paths, and showing a leafless network of inter- 

 lacing vines. 



