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GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. 
a basin of water, which was set playing- for our entertainment. Along the walls 
were planted abele trees, whose tops were disposed upon an iron treUiage into 
arches at equal distances, &c., &c. The best piece of trelliage of iron bars and 
wood intermixed, is in the garden of Monsieur Louvois. The whole upper end is 
adorned with a noble trelliage, after the manner of a triumphal arch : it cost a 
great sum of money. There are four statues disposed on pedestals under it ; on 
one side of the trelliage is an aviary well stored with birds," &c. 
We are also informed that pots of Sedmn pyyamiddle, vases of iron with 
double red and striped stocks in them, and ranunculus brought at great price from 
Constantinople, formed distinguished ornaments of these arbours. 
In his description of the gardens of St. Cloud he says, " There are many 
arbours of trelliage pavilions, &c., of iron mixed with wood, painted green, with 
honeysuckles running up to them." The tree most in use here is the small-leaved 
hornbeam, which serves for arcades, berceaux, &c. The marronier, or horse-chesnut, 
is chiefly used for shady walks. He also says, that vast urns, or vases of 
trelliage^ filled with some plant growing within them, and clipped to their form, 
formed a common accompaniment to the trelliage arbour. 
These dry quotations show what was the style of arbour then in use, in which 
little alteration has since been made. The expense that was then gone to, however, 
in the gilding and decoration of these trelliages was incredible. Lyster mentions 
two which cost sixteen thousand livres. 
The object in this was, that as during the severe winter, and the height of 
summer, the trelliage was nearly laid bare by the frost, or by the parching sun ; 
so it was important to make it look well even then. 
Fig-, 5, is an example of the old French and Italian arbour. 
The best and handsomest arbours 
of this class that we have seen, are 
those in the gardens of the Duke of 
Baden, at Schweitzingen, between 
the Rhine and the Maine. These 
gardens, attached to the ancient 
castle of the Marquesses of Baden 
(now only used as a hunting-lodge), 
are of considerable extent, and are tilled with a profuse variety of ornament, in a 
mixed style, between the old French and the German, 
The great garden area immediately behind the castle, is laid down in a great 
circle, divided into various grass-plots, fountains, basins, &c., &c., all of respectable 
magnitude : the semi-circumference of the circle next the castle, is surrounded by 
hothouses, which form its extreme wings ; but the remote semi-circumference is 
entirely surrounded by a broad walk, covered by an arched wooden trelliage, with 
equidistant arched openings all along the sides ; these at one side permit a free 
view of the great circle with all its varied garniture, while at the other they open 
into a succession of close and secluded bowers. 
The whole is uniformly and luxuriantly covered with the Vii'ginian creeper 
{Ampelopsis hederaceii) 
