A MASSIVE PERGOLA. 



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A MASSIVE PERGOLA. 



One of thebest changes made in gardens of our 

 day is the use of the pergola with its various 

 advantages. It gives us a most charming way 

 of placing many climbing shrubs- to the best 



They have an idea that it is not a variable thing, 

 but there is nothing that lends itself more to 

 variety of size, and form, and material, than the 

 pergola, from the fragile sticks that carry so 

 gracefully the vines in Savoy, to the massive 



A MASSIVE PERGOLA, WITH CIRCULAR 

 (Engraved for " Flora.") 



BRICK SUPPORTS. 



advantage both for their growth and effect, in- 

 asmuch as we can see them in all ways, above 

 and below. We have heard people urge that 

 the pergola, like many other things made in 

 gardens, should be mainly of one kind and size. 



rough stone pillars of southern Italy. We have 

 heard it said that in building a pergola it must 

 be all on level ground, but we have made them 

 on sloping ground with even better effect than 

 on level ground. As regards size, we can adapt 



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