WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A LATTICE 



of the bamboo and string make an admirable accompaniment 

 to the lightness and delicacy of sweet peas or morning-glories. 

 And sweet peas are of too poetic and delicate a loveliness to 

 be married to so prosaic a support as chicken-wire. 



To make a bamboo lattice, have the stakes cut in six-foot 

 lengths (for a fairly tall fence) ; set them in the ground at six- 

 inch intervals. Then take a ball of common heavy brown 

 twine and stretch it across the stakes, tying at each stake, the 

 strings being just the dis- 

 tance apart that the stakes (jl — (■ - 

 are set. If the stakes are 

 straight, the strings 

 stretched evenly, this lat- 

 tice is quite Japanese in ef- 

 fect. Such an arrangement 

 of bamboo and string, 

 covered with annual vines, 

 is one of the best ways of 

 making a quick and tem- 

 porary screen — such a one 

 as is most desirable in a 

 place that is merely rented 

 for the summer. 



For a more permanent screen a small trellis is good. This 

 may be of any size you choose. (That illustrated is only six feet 

 wide.) Two posts should be set at the right distances with cross- 

 pieces to serve as stay and foundation for the screen of rather 

 close latticework. A chmbing rose or a shrub trained against 

 such a trelhs is a very attractive substitute for some bit of un- 

 lovehness that otherwise would obtrude itself into the garden. 



In making a garden, the screening, or cutting off from view 

 some bit that would mar the charm, is quite as important as 



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Bamboo and string lattice for annual vines 



