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arched effects, is thereby changed into quite 
a good feature, when carefully planted with 
ivy or draped with wistaria. Trellis placed 
against the low wall at the end of a small 
garden, with alcoves or rounded recesses, will 
give an idea of distance. 
A plain deal trellis in squares treated with 
carbolinium or anti-rot fades after a few months’ 
exposure into a pleasant grey, the colour of 
weathered oak, making a better background 
than if painted, and is most suitable when the 
trellis divides two portions of the garden. 
When it is to go against a wall, it should 
be painted. A good grey-green is obtained 
by mixing a little white paint with what is 
known as middle Brunswick green. Some- 
thing in the nature of a preservative is neces- 
sary. A trellis of this description is seen in 
one of the illustrations, dividing a one-colour 
garden from a great lawn fringed with old 
cedars. This one-colour garden, of which a 
plan is given on p. 135, is planted entirely 
with mauve flowers, with the exception of 
four oblong beds which in the spring of the 
year, when the photograph was taken, were 
filled with lemon-white and orange-coloured 
primroses bordered with mauve pansies, and 
intermingled with mauve and silvery-pink 
