68 GARDENS : THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



hidden, and plants flourish best when brought in contact 

 with an unvarying temperature like wood. 



All the gardens that overhang the steep banks and 

 walls of Siena have upon the edge either pergolas or a 

 short espalier of vines. This looks well upon the bordet 

 of any banked-up terrace-garden. We gain a feeling oi 

 security, and plants grown upon the terrace behind are 

 thus sheltered against sun or wind. It is possible, il 

 stone-work be too expensive, to make the foundations ol 

 these banks quite firm by embedding in the earth ok 

 railway-sleepers. Should these trellises need strengthen- 

 ing in places, a piece of disused gas-pipe can be used anc 



Fig. 54. 



skilfully concealed behind a bamboo cane. By bending 

 the horizontal bamboo lines in and out of the upright ones 

 an almost self-supporting trellis is made. If tied in place 

 it is quite secure, and clematis, with canary creeper nea 

 it, looks well on such a fence. The above suggestion 

 may appear very primitive to those who hand over thei 

 garden designs to a skilled bricklayer, but in these day 

 of economy for all I venture to offer them. It is no 

 expensive stone-work that makes a garden lovely, fo 

 beauty is alone gained by care in the arrangement c 

 details. 



For a town or suburban garden, we may take anothe 

 idea from Siena. A railing similar to Fig. 54 divides on 

 garden from another. The uprights are painted a du 



