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at the bottom so it will not rot, and a trellis of 
this description will last a long time. 
There is a large variety of ready-made trellises 
in all sorts of fancy designs, (mostly fan-shaped) 
that are not worth the trouble of carrying home. 
In the first place they usually come six to eight 
feet high and almost the same width. How 
many vines are there which we can restrict to 
these measurements? Then they are so very 
thick at the bottom that it is hard for either a 
twining or a tendril-bearing vine to get started 
on them. Lastly, you just reach the stage 
where you have the trellis nicely covered when it 
blows over (of course, the iron trellis is not so 
liable to do this). In general this class of fancy, 
ornamental trellises has no good points to rec- 
ommend it, so I would strongly advise the use of 
home-made trellises. Old bean poles, or, in fact, 
any kind of rough wood stuck up in an irregular 
row, is far preferable to these other hideous 
affairs. 
Fences make ideal supports for vines of all 
kinds. Yet how often is there seen a mile or 
so of bare fence around a place, when, by a 
little effort and a very trifling expenditure, it 
could be turned into a real flower garden. Nearly 
all sorts of vines do well on fences, but it is better 
