WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A LATTICE 



lawns, however extensively the latter may be beautified with 

 shrubbery. 



It is quite possible that the present decline of romance 

 may be in a measure the result of our mercilessly open grounds, 

 and the utter lack in the gardens of the "rose-grot" of the 

 much-quoted poet, or anything akin to it. Is a settee on an 

 open lawn, under the scant shade of a chubby young umbrella 

 of a catalpa, at all comparable in a young man's fancy with 

 sitting in a vine-clad arbor beside the admired one, while the 

 gold and green light sifts through and touches her hair and 

 the vines make charming shadows on her gown ? In fact, when 

 the young women of to-day awake to the romantic value of a 

 garden setting for themselves, it will mark a new era in our 

 gardening, and perhaps a new birth of romance. 



The garden uses of the lattice are many and various. In 

 the older gardens, an arbor was often made by setting two 

 arches across a path at a distance of eight or ten feet apart, 

 connecting these with horizontal joists, and then covering the 

 whole structure with a diamond lattice. Inside, against the 

 lattice which served as a back, was on either side a long, low 

 seat. Over this arbor, of course, grew vines — roses or honey- 

 suckle. Such an arbor, at once shaded and airy, has proved 

 a charming play-place to several generations of children, and 

 it is far more in keeping with a rather simple garden than the 

 ubiquitous pergola. 



On exactly the same plan, but narrower, the two support- 

 ing arches not more than three feet apart, was the garden 

 arch, common in Colonial gardens. This was almost invariably 

 used for climbing roses. 



The covered seat, which is an excellent bit of garden furni- 

 ture, is made of a wide garden arch, two feet deep, with a low, 

 broad seat across, while at the back, as well as at the sides, is 



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