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bark outside. Roof thatched, over boarded 

 deal rafters. (See Fig. 76.) 



The above examples are typical of good 



Fig. 76. — Summer house 



practice and restraint in design, and will prove 

 sufficiently suggestive to the gardener. 



Arbours — This term may be understood to 

 describe such structures as are designed to 

 give shade by means of the foliage they support. 

 They are in no sense weather-proof, being merely 

 skeleton structures of light woodwork. They 

 may be built of larch nailed together, or of 

 light, sawn oak quartering joined by galvanized 



