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The climbers I find best for covering the pergola 

 are Vines, Jasmine, Aristolochia, Virginia Creeper, and 

 Wistaria. Roses are about the worst, for they soon 

 run up leggy, and only flower at the top out of sight. 



A sensible arrangement, allied to the pergola, and 

 frequent in Germany and Switzerland, is made by 

 planting young Planes, pollarding them at about eight 

 feet from the ground, and training down the young 

 growths horizontally till they have covered the desired 

 roof-space. 



There is much to be done in our better-class gar- 

 dens in the way of pretty small structures thoroughly 

 well-designed and bUilt. Many a large lawn used every 

 afternoon in summer as a family playground and place 

 to receive visitors would have its comfort and useful- 

 ness greatly increased by a pretty garden-house, instead 

 of the usual hot and ugly, crampy and uncomfortable 

 tent. But it should be thoroughly well designed to 

 suit the house and garden. A pigeon-cote would come 

 well in the upper part, and the face or faces open to 

 the lawn might be closed in winter with movable 

 shutters, when it would make a useful store-place for 



len seats and much else. 



