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arose for that reason at first. In our 

 country, in the old gardens, the native 

 tree was often used on the covered way 

 or alley, but that is a very poor way of 

 making it in the presence of our riches 

 in climbing plants, and it is even a better 

 thing from the point of view of beauty 

 than it is for shade. There is no other 

 way in which we can grow many beauti- 

 ful and hardy climbers so well, and we 

 see them in every attitude, both outside 

 and inside our covered way. These 

 climbers, well grown, will often give us 

 a shade even better than the old plashed 

 alley, which needed continual mutila- 

 tion to keep it in its place. The wealth 

 of things we have now for planting on 

 such surfaces is quite remarkable ; Cle- 

 matis, Vine, Wistaria, and the nobler 

 climbing Roses alone would suffice to 

 make most beautiful ones, and there are 

 not a few more, even the forms of one 

 of the Clematis iyiticellci), raised by M. 

 Morel, of Lyons, go a long way in the 

 adornment of such structures. A minor 

 charm of the pergola is the variety of 

 things of which it may be made, accord- 

 ing to local supplies or the taste of the 

 owner. The one we illustrate is the 

 ordinary type of southern pergola, in 

 which the pillars are made of any handy 

 stone material, with a few pine or other 

 sticks thrown over. In our country too 

 often the supports are made of sapwood, 

 which quickly decays and makes the 

 pergola anything but a pleasant haunt. 



In much of our country there is plenty 

 of "stub" and other Oak which could 

 be well spared for the pillars, and very 

 good ones they make. Larch comes next, 

 and this should be chosen if we want a 

 pergola of light and elegant form. Often 

 it may happen that a lightly supported, 

 rather narrow pergola will look better 

 in certain places than a large and bold 

 one; butwhen we come to spaces where 

 a large one is best, then decidedly the 

 better way is to have 14-inch brick pil- 

 lars, and sometimes a plain " stock " 

 brick will make this best and cheapest. 

 We may use round-cornered bricks, 

 but the effect will rarely be better than is 

 got by using a plain one. Brick pillars, 

 however, would be out of place where 

 a narrow slender-pillared pergola is re- 

 quired. A pergola should never be made 

 without there is some apparent use for 

 it, the simplest being as a shaded way 

 from one part of the garden to another, 

 or from the house to a main part of the 

 garden : occasionally we have found 

 them useful as dividing lines to separate 

 the flower garden from its surroundings ; 

 also they may now and then be well 

 used round the playground or bowling 

 green. The cross timbers of the pergola 

 should in important cases be of Oak, 

 or Larch cleft in two, which lasts longer 

 than round Larch, and for the smaller 

 sticks split Chestnut, which is common 

 enough in the south of England, or 

 failing them, Bamboos and Oak battens. 



Rhododendron Yunnanense at Glas- 

 nevin. — We have received this from Glas- 

 nevin. The effect is white, though the flower 

 is a delicate suffused lilac ; it is a most charm- 



ing bush and very hardy. For over a fortnight 

 the bush has been white all over ; two years 

 ago it was the same. It is in a moist place 

 near the pond, cold, and shaded from the sun. 



