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it with one's eyes full of light and colour, and the 

 open-sided sumnaer-house at the end looks like a black 

 cavern ; but on going into it, and sitting down on one 

 of its broad, low benches, one finds that it is a pleasant 

 subdued light, just right to read by. 



The pergola has two openings out of it on the 

 right, and one on the left. The first way out on the 

 right is straight into the nut-walk, which leads up to 

 very near the house. The second goes up two or 

 three low, broad steps made of natural sandstone flags, 

 between groups of Ferns, into the Michaelmas Daisy 

 garden. The opening on the left leads into a quiet 

 space of grass the width of the flower and wall border 

 (twenty feet), having only some peat-beds planted vdth 

 Kalmia. This is backed by a Yew hedge in continua- 

 tion of the main wall, and it will soon grow into a 

 cool, quiet bit of garden, seeming to belong to the 

 pergola. Now, standing midway in the length of the 

 covered walk, with the eye rested and refreshed by the 

 leafy half-light, on turning round again towards the 

 border it shows as a brilliant picture through the 

 bowery framing, and the value of the simple method 

 of using the colours is seen to full advantage. 



I do not like a mean pergola, made of stuff as thin 

 as hop-poles. If means or materials do not admit of 

 having anything better, it is far better to use these in 

 some other simple way, of which there are many to 

 choose from — such as uprights at even intervals, braced 

 together with a continuous rail at about four feet from 



