162 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



Good rustic garden architecture requires sim- 

 plicity and directness of design. Otherwise an 

 over-elaborately worked-out arbor, garden- 

 house or pergola ceases to be restful and be- 

 comes, instead, a disturbing feature in the gar- 

 den landscape. 



The material employed in the construction 

 of any garden feature of architectural genre 

 is a matter of the utmost importance. Too 

 often there is a little or no relationship between 

 materials employed in building a garden- 

 house, lattice-work, a pergola or an arbor and 

 the materials employed in the dwelling adja- 

 cent to the garden where these architectural 

 adornments find their place. While there 

 need not, in all cases, be a stated material in 

 common use, there should be a harmonious re- 

 lationship maintained; as, for instance, when 

 one finds a brick house in the Pennsylvania 

 Colonial style (the exterior trim painted 

 white) giving hint that a white wood pergola, 

 white trellis work or a white arbor along sim- 

 ple lines suggesting the Colonial would be an 

 appropriate garden accessory. 



There are few features in the garden of 

 flowering plants that are more deserving of at- 



