that will likely make them frequent trespassers on the patient generous vines, when grapes are 

 ripening. But let the girls and boys own certain of the vines and be required to plant and care 

 for them and freely enjoy the product of their own, with their friends, and be early taught the 

 virtue of respecting the rights of others and that it is far more joyous to be generous than selfish, 

 and you are laying the best possible foundation in your child for a noble citizen, that each should 

 grow up to be. 



Perhaps there may be a garden fence, or cross fence, or a line between front and back yard 

 where you want a screen. Such places afford space for growing a family supply of grapes, without 

 practically occupying any more ground than the fence requires, the same varieties and treatment 

 will answer as for regular vineyard trellis, and, being draped with vines well cared for, give 

 beauty as well as food and added comfort to the home. 



The Grape Arbor and Pergola 



The humblest cottager and the millionaire may engage with pleasure and success in producing 

 han'dsome clusters, luscious berries and comforting shade. The plebeian is the more likely to 

 succeed best and enjoy 'the fruits most, for he works with his head and hands in partnership, 

 while the aristocrat depends on his gardener, and has such a multiplicity of other cares that he 

 has few moments to spend in his "pergola" that has cost hundreds of dollars where the simple 

 arbor of the toiler has cost cents. 



Grape arbors vary as much in design and style, almost, as do houses, but one as durable 

 and successful as any, and quite as enjoyable, can be made for a few dollars. 



Such I shall describe, and he who would prefer a pergola, will do better by consulting a 

 professional landscape architect. 



In the first place, determine the form or style of arbor desired and its dimensions. These 

 will largely depend on the yard space you have, or rather the distance from the residence rear 

 door to outhouse, the wood-shed, the stable or the summer-house, the flower garden, the fountain 

 or the tennis court, or wherever you wish from a side door. If built along one side of a building, 

 one line of posts only will be needed, and such places favor a veranda or pergola form. If in 

 open ground, two lines having posts opposite, and about eight feet apart between rows, and the 

 posts in each row. But these spaces will vary according to entire space to be occupied. The 

 posts should be of durable wood, as of white-oak, post-oak, black locust, catalpa, bois d'arc, 

 mesquite, etc. To be neat and durable, should be sawn or hewn, and painted or whitewashed 

 every second year. A good height is eight feet when set, and should be set two feet deep, requir- 

 ing posts ten feet long. Along the top of each line of posts, and crossing from pair to pair of 

 posts, a plate of durable wood, 2x6 inches, should be spiked or bolted. If to be the simplest 

 kind of flat-topped arbor, the frame as described above is sufficient, and is quickly finished by- 

 stapling on each side from two to three feet from ground, up over the top, No. 9 galvanized wire, 

 lengthwise of trelHs or on outside of posts and on top of crosspieces,^12 inches apart; so that the 

 trellis when finished will be somewhat as indicated by Figure 1. 





Figure 1 — View of one end of arbor. 

 If it be desired to give the trellis a more ornamental finish, it can be quickly done at small 

 additional expense by cutting lumber suitably and erecting on the square flat frame (shown in 



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