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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
proceeded with, but the hump-baclced town houses admit of artistic- 
embellishments very unkindly indeed. What is to be done for 
them ? Sometimes the builder, for an additional outlay, will 
construct a balcony terrace, opening from the drawing-room window 
by a glass door, and leading down to the lawn by a flight of iron or 
stone steps. When you can have a handsome iron trellis of 
ornamental design, over which to carry a vine or a small collection 
of miscellaneous climbers, and with a few improvements above and 
below, taste and ease may be satisfactorily gratified, and the house 
fitted for the acceptance of what may be termed terrace ornaments . 
If the situation and character of the house does not admit of the 
builder’s aid, refuge may be found in trellis-work, which certainlv 
has a transforming power as effectual as Harlequin’s wand, and in 
a manner at once simple and inexpensive. 
An example of this mode of using trellis-work, is seen in the 
annexed sketches. The first presents us with a cluster of ugly 
buildings: — A is the larder, adjoining the kitchen, B a scullery, C 
a dog-house, D a back wall with door leading to a lane, E a stable, 
and F an open space littered with straw, and the results of frequent 
traffic between the several offices. 
To change the scene, there is no need to alter the buildings, for 
the simplest lattice-work will effectually screen them from view 
without robbing them of light and air, and the lattice becomes 
additionally useful by covering it with climbing and twining 
plants. 
In many cases a plain neatness is to be preferred to verdurous 
luxuriance, yet the occasions will be few indeed where walls and 
trellises will not need to be covered. A neat little country box 
embowered in jasmine, honeysuckle, pyrus, and ivy, conveys an idea 
of warmth, hospitality, and homely comfort; and where a dwelling- 
house has not a decidedly architectural aspect, it is all the better as 
to beauty and the drvness of its walls, to be well ivied and screened 
with greenness. Garden walls, outhouses, porticos, trellises, and 
arbours, all need the touch of floral grace to make them complete; 
and a judicious selection of such is another legitimate mode of 
extending your growing space and your round of pleasures. 
For the fronts of houses, those two commonest of screens, ivy 
