OUT-OF-DOOR LIVING ROOMS 



The pergola is closely related to the old-time arbor 

 and is particularly desirable in this land of clear skies. 

 No roof above, and yet a shelter. A hammock swung in a 

 pergola is ideal. Overhead, leaves and tendrils twine in 

 and out; the air circulates freely about you as you sway in 

 your comfortable swing; yet you are free from draught 

 and may look out over whatever scene your pergola is de- 

 signed to disclose. Early Oriental life brought into being 

 the pergola. Fruits ripened in mid-air are sweeter and 

 wholesomer than those that rest on the ground; hence the 

 pergola was most frequently used for fruiting vines. The 

 most charming pergola I know is one where passion-flowers 

 and the delicate wire-vine mingle their tender leaves and 

 beautiful blossoms with the sturdier stems of the grape, 

 and in the fall, when the flowers are gone, one may feast 

 with eyes as well as stomach upon the purple clusters of 

 the Isabella grape, the perfume of which is not the least 

 of its charms. 



One feature of the pergola which seems often lost by 

 the modern architect is that, properly, there must be always 

 a definite outlook upon some scene of beauty and interest. 

 The idea of the artist is to temporarily shut in the observer 

 in order that at the end of the walk, or mayhap at some 

 opening at a proper point, the eye shall meet with a surprise 

 in the way of a long vista of mountains, a bit of silvery 

 blue water or some peaceful valley or garden scene. In 

 Italy, the home of the pergola, I remember to have heard 

 that in the grounds of a certain wonderful palace was a mag- 



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