GARDEN ARCHITECTURE, 
85 
To the second kind belong all those which are formed by the hand of man, aided 
by some natural suitability of circumstances, or accidental advantages. Thus an 
aged forest tree may have some appropriate climbing plant placed at its root, so 
as to run through its branches and foliage, and ultimately descend gracefully from 
their extremities, until it nearly touches the ground, as in fig. 3. 
The vast hollow trunk of an 
aged oak may be mantled with ivy, 
or with honeysuckle, and block 
seats placed within. To this order, 
likewise, belong those which are 
made by enclosing a space of any 
desirable form, perhaps circular, 
with the trunks of trees, choosing 
those which are roughest, and most 
moss-grown, fixing them firmly in 
close array in the ground, and 
closing in the arched top with their 
branches. Various climbing plants 
may then be planted at their bases 
on the outside; amongst which ivy, in its varieties, should not be forgotten: these 
will soon cover over the whole with a dense envelope of foliage and flowers, while 
within, amongst the roots of the trunks and the block seats, primroses, violets, ferns, 
and other plants that love shade, and even some small American plants, will thrive. 
Fig. 4. — The construction of this kind of arbour depends much on the chances 
of situation; and many designs, or minute instructions, would be, therefore, 
superfluous. 
Arbours of the third kind are now but little used, indeed are scarcely to be seen 
in this country. They were usually formed with much attention to architectural 
outline of wood, or iron, or copper-wire trelliage ; in the construction and arrange- 
ment of which much skill and money were often lavished. They seem to have 
had their origin in Italy, and thence to have passed into France. Lyster, in his 
travels, anno 1698, gives descrip- 
tions of many which he saw. In 
the garden of the Hotel d'Aumont, 
he says, " the trelliage at the upper 
end of the garden was very well 
adorned with gilding, and had in 
the middle a pavilion in which was 
an old Roman statue of a young 
man," &c, &c. 
In the Hotel Pelletier, " The 
garden here was very neat, with a 
trelliage at the end, after the 
manner of a triumphal arch. In 
two niches were placed great iron vases of flower-pots, and right before the middle 
Fig. 4. 
