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Pergolas come next. A pergola is an archway formed of branches or 
trunks of trees over a pathway, and covered with roses, etc., as described on 
p.p. 188 and 189. The branches should be as rough as possible, in order to give 
the climbers an opportunity of displaying their growth and blossom in a free and 
natural manner. An arbour may be formed in the same way, arranging the 
branches accordingly. These, when planted with roses and clematises, will 
look exceedingly pretty. Arches may be formed in a similar manner of 
rustic tree branches in a corner of the garden; and if these are connected 
with strands of wire and planted with climbing roses and clematis, an excellent 
effect will be produced. 
Rustic Pot Holders are useful contrivances for holding pot plants. The 
materials used in their construction are^by no means of an elaborate character, 
but consist simply of any rustic-looking wood available. 
Here our labours end. If the reader should derive but a hundreth part 
of the pleasure in the perusal of this book that it has already afforded the 
writers, there will be some little gain to the present life, which in its turn may 
tend to gain in a life exceeding this. The ideas and the illustrations em¬ 
bodied herein reflect the experience of many years' practice and study in 
garden and indoor embellishment, and therefore may be regarded as 
thoroughly practical in the fullest sense of the word. We shall rest in the 
hope that this humble endeavour will be of‘service to some genial spirits, 
who will pardon its shortcomings for the sake of the object to which our 
labours have been directed—to establish nearer and dearer relations between 
the home and the country, between the heart of man and the glorious 
creation by which he is surrounded. 
