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prototype, but when made in wood, the only 

 permissible plan is to form its curved part 

 of bent wood, and to see that its curve is a 

 semicircle, or at least part of a true circle 

 or ellipse. 



The Gothic shape is of all the most ob- 

 jectionable. 



For temporary purposes, as, for instance, 

 when it is desired to train a hedge plant into 

 an arch, there is nothing better than an iron 

 shape made from a stout rod bent to the 

 proper curve. Ordinary trellis on arches implies 

 the necessity for painting, which I do not favour 

 in any garden structure if it can be avoided. 



Oak treUis of the type I have already de- 

 scribed, however, is not open to the same ob- 

 jection. 



Trellis — I have already dealt with trellis 

 in Chapter XVI, but I may be permitted to 

 recur briefly to the subject here, more par- 

 ticularly in connection with its special aspect as 

 a factor in the garden picture. The diagonal 

 structure we associate with the word "trellis" 

 is found all over the world wherever the garden 

 is an established institution. Its function is 

 to provide a light grill, which conceals and yet 



