40 BOOK OF GARDEN PLANS 
needed long and are of doubtful value. For immediate effect it would be 
better to purchase some of the plants in large sizes so that they reach the 
top of the pergola the first season. 
Only the north portion of the pergola will be heavily shaded. The 
teahouse and the opposite arch are draped with Wisteria in purple and 
white. Showy scarlet flowers are the main effect on the outer side of 
the arbor on the west, and double pink and white Roses on the inner side. 
These same Roses and others are planned to meet overhead on the south 
arbor, while some of the robust species of Clematis, in several colors, will 
hide the bare bases of the Roses. 
Few vines will grow upon the house itself, as much of the wall gets 
but little sun. Virginia Creeper, trained upon wires over the woodwork, 
and Evergreen Euonymus upon the foundations and other stonework, 
are about all the vine effect we can hope to maintain here. 
The outer north side shows heavy dark foliage rather than flowers, 
from Grape, Moonseed, Dutchman’s Pipe, Silver Vine, etc., and this effect 
is again suggested over the middle of the south arbor by a pair of Sterile 
Grapes and Moonseeds. Between the posts on the outer side of the north 
portion a low lattice is built to give the play lawn complete seclusion 
from that side. To cover this lattice the Japanese Honeysuckle is 
planted for its foliage, as flowers will be few under such conditions of 
shade, but the vines will be vigorous enough for our purpose. 
The inner side of the north arbor partly repeats the outer side, but 
it has also robust vines with showy flowers, foliage, or fruit. 
The west arbor has also atrellis for screen, the inner side with low netted 
wire to support Perennial Pea, the outer with a coarse-meshed wire to 
the top for such stout perennial twiners as Hops, Kudzu Vine, and 
Perennial Moonflower. If they force the woody vines among them to 
grow only on the top of that part of the pergola no harm is done, as the 
perennial sorts will effectively screen in summer the greenhouse and its 
soil piles from the little lawn and the house. 
Though this planting is as a whole one that you might never want 
to carry out, yet many of the details may give suggestions useful in similar 
and smaller plantings. 
