ARBORS AND OTHER 



be given a coating of paint, with more or less 

 ornamental pillars or supports and rafters, and 

 are constructed along definite architectural lines. 

 They are, in fact, ornamental structures over 

 which vines are to be trained loosely with a view 

 to tempering the sunshine rather than excluding 

 it. The framework of the arbor, as a general 

 thing, is considered secondary to the effect pro- 

 duced by it when the vines we plant about it are 

 developed. But, unlike the Americanized per- 

 gola, the arbor is almost always located in a re- 

 tired or inconspicuous part of the home-grounds, 

 and is seldom found connected with the dwelling. 

 To get the benefit of the arbor, or the summer- 

 house we evolve from it, we must go to it, while 

 the pergola, as adapted by most of us, brings 

 the attractive features of out-door life to the 

 house, thus combining out- and in-door life more 

 intimately than heretofore. One of the illustra- 

 tions accompanying this chapter shows a very 

 simple pergola framework — one that can be built 

 cheaply, and by any man or boy who is at all 

 " handy with tools," and can be used as a plan 

 to work from by anyone who desires to attach a 

 modification of the pergola proper to the dwell- 

 ing, for the purpose of furnishing shade to por- 

 tions of it not provided with verandas. It will 



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