AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
HERE are few features in the garden of flowering plants that are more deserving of attention and less deserving of the neglec y suffer, than gar. 
arches. Perhaps garden beginners overlook the possibilities in this direction. It is not enough to plant flowering things, have them spring ur 
bear blossoms to constitute a garden. A garden is something more than a display of a number of plants. It is a creation of man’s ingenuity in 
devising ways and means of intensifying the beauties of plant growth by selection, arrangement, color, choice, contrasts and design. Thus it happens 
that after a time every garden-maker instinctively turns his attention to the structural side of gardening. Perhaps his first on has found him 
content to plant a bed of things and watch them grow, rejoicing and finding satisfaction in their reaching florescence unretarded. But later he } 
will wish to make a ‘house of flowers’’ as it were, even to imitate some of nature's plant arrangements. He will wish to construct arbors, mazes, 
formal and sunken gardens; he will wish to sow a corner with old-fashioned flowers which shall fill the vista with a blaze of unpatterned gorgeousness, but if he 
finds that the bit of ground at his disposal is not sufficient to permit these experiments to any extent, he will still gain satisfaction in constructing a garden arch such 
as is shown in any of the illustrations on these pages. An examination of them will reveal possibilities along this line that will prove inspiring to the garden-make: 
