76 GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



expense — shadow walks, indeed, which the amateur can 

 himself erect with the help of the village carpenter 

 or blacksmith. When a bricklayer is called in, and a 

 more ambitious shadow walk is asked for, Fig. 60 

 may well be suggested. It is economical of bricks, 

 because, as the sketch shows, a high wall is not necessary, 

 the piers can be placed at intervals upon a level surface 

 of low brickwork. Wooden uprights will spring from 

 these piers. The whole is light and graceful, and there 



is protection enough for 

 a considerable number 

 of climbers to be planted 

 against it. 



If a high wall be used 

 in the place of the brick 

 piers, then there is no 

 reason why peaches 

 should not be grown 

 against it upon the 

 sunny southern side. 

 Within the pergola 

 climbing hops or honeysuckles can be planted, to twine 

 up over the woodwork and run along the slender cross- 

 pieces of the roof. Thus can be happily united the profit 

 of fruit and the grace of flowering climbers. 



For a really important and beautiful covered way we 

 have not far to seek. It is one which has been planned 

 out upon truly Italian lines, and is at Gravetye, Mr. 

 W. Robinson's famous and lovely garden. Slowly we 

 walk up it, by a gentle gradient towards the summit ot 

 the hill, winding gently, and thus obtaining at each step 

 a different prospect. In autumn, the place from which 

 to view it is the upper windows of the house ; and this 

 should be kept in mind about all pergolas, for the lovely 

 reds and yellows of the leaf-thatched roof are seen at their 

 best as we look down upon them from a height. 



Fig. 60. 



