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The Young Gardener . 
shade ; and if your garden is very near the house, 
I think it is a pity to spoil the looks for such a 
doubtful pleasure. The roof requires, too, to be 
much higher on one side than on the other when 
you have it waterproof, and this sadly does away 
with the pretty Italian or Japanese square trellis. 
I think that flower-gardens are mere summer 
pleasures, and in summer we want shade chiefly. 
In full view of the house, at any rate, you do not 
want a summer-house ; so unless you are far away 
I am an advocate of the trellis plan, which is done 
so easily and always looks so nice. 
Having made your roof, you next may construct 
the walls, which is quite reversing all proper 
house-building order. Nothing hardly is prettier 
than a crossed fence here again — a row of long 
sticks leaning one way, and another row going 
the other, on three of the sides of the six-sided 
bower. The interstices can be as large or as 
small as you like— or I have seen such bowers 
looking extremely pretty without any walls at all, 
and only surrounded by the six green pillars. It 
is an important question what to plant by these 
pillars. 
I think myself that each should have something 
evergreen, and then any extra flowers make it 
