PLAYGROUNDS 
OF 
SUNLIGHT 
T HE pergola is a place of moods 
sometimes gay, sometimes 
grave, and sometimes altogether 
mischievous, as when the hide-and- 
go-seek of the sunbeams reverses 
the accustomed disposal of high 
light and plays the eye a trick remi- 
niscent of wartime camouflage. 
There is just one invariable rule with 
regard to these fascinating struc- 
tures, namely: put them only where 
they lead definitely from something 
to something and never aimlessly 
just whence to whither — for the 
first purpose of a pergola is to 
shade a walk. 
A more startling yet more wholly delightful contrast than this nat- 
uralistic bit of rock garden brought into closest intimacy with the 
house and hidden within a cloister-like surrounding pergola it is 
impossible to imagine. Residence of W. E. Hering, Arlington, Pa. 
■W holly pergola yet half wall is this garden enclosure which has Evony- 
mus radicans clothing it within and fragrant yellow Day-lily (Hem- 
erocallis) under its shade. Estate of Mr. Phipps at W’estbury, L I. 
Leading from the house on the estate of James L. Breese, 
Southampton, Long Island, along a garden wall and open 
only toward the garden this type of pergola is designated 
a “peristyle” by McKim, Mead & White, its designers 
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