86 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
gions generally. “Pergola,” be it noted, 
means nothing more nor less than “ vine ar- 
bor”; it is our false conception of the term 
that applies it only to the timber and heavy col- 
umn structure which has found its detached 
way into gardens and succeeded generally in 
getting where it does not belong. Away out 
of doors and apart from dwellings there should 
be no architectural pergolas; here genuinely 
roofed structures are in order, or else the sim- 
plest arbors. Only attached to the dwelling, 
not merely against it but leading from it, may 
such pergolas be properly introduced. 
Many gardens or garden sites which are too 
small to admit a garden house or casino suffi- 
ciently apart from the dwelling to be worth 
while may yet afford space for this proper use 
of the pergola. Where this is too ambitious 
for the type of house and the grounds gener- 
ally, however, a seat under a tree is always 
possible — or under a bower of vines — with an 
outdoor table to keep it company. This much 
at least should never be omitted from any gar- 
den — and may be repeated as often, within the 
bounds of reason, as space admits or fancy 
dictates, to provide the greatest amount of en- 
couragement possible to the cultivation of the 
out-of-doors habit — and the greatest amount 
