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no more. No line of treillage surrounding the whole garden 

 should be set, if this form of light wood-work is to be used to a 

 great extent within the garden botinds. An example of simple 

 latticed boundary fence is shown in the picture opposite page 48. 

 The openings of the fence might well have been a little smaller, 

 but the proportions generally are good, especially of walls to 

 posts, and posts to length and height of fence; and the latter is 

 well placed and prettily concealed, to a certain extent, by the 

 belt of low shrubs before it. 



The points of advantage over a wall ofiEered by a well-designed 

 treillage are: less original cost; chance for freedom of design and 

 for change after a time; and a light grace in screening, in rose- 

 support, and in a semi-architectural eflfect which this type of 

 construction may bring to the garden. Design is all-important. 

 Better no treillage, than that which is commonplace or stupid in 

 pattern. Consult your landscape architect here again. Occa- 

 sionally, in some fine book of gardening — such, for instance, as 

 those published by "Country Life," London — one may find 

 suggestions in this type of design. There you will find patterns of 

 distinction and charm readily adaptable to the smallest gardens, 

 and easily made by a good local carpenter. By treillage I mean, 

 of course, lattice-work, the open designs of squares, lozenges, or 

 other shapes, which are used as light screens or as supports for 

 flowering things. In this connection I might say that some 

 particularly charming designs for individual rose-supports are 

 the work of Inigo Triggs, the English landscape architect and 

 writer. The illustration facing page 40 shows two simple rose- 

 supports, blue spruces facing each, and posts of an arbor or per- 

 gola, all in delightfully balanced relation to each other. I will re- 

 frain from discussion here as to the mistaken use of the blue 

 spruce for an eastern garden. But those who know the ugly older 

 specimens of this tree in the Arnold Arboretum will never buy it 



