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of their business, the best opportunities of studying the economy of the 
insects which abound in gardens. Their economy once known, it may 
appear that in some one stage of their life they may easily be destroyed 
by some very simple means, but of which we are now ignorant, merely 
because we are not well enough acquainted with their habits and 
Senex. 
April \0th , 1835. 
GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. 
ON THE VARIOUS FORMS AND CHARACTERS OF ARBOURS AS 
OBJECTS OF USE OR ORNAMENT, EITHER IN GARDEN OR WILD 
SCENERY. 
BY R. MALLET, ESQ., OF DUBLIN. 
An arbour is a space covered and enclosed by the interweaving 
branches of trees and reticulated stems of climbing plants, generally 
but not necessarily situated in the midst of garden scenery, and 
intended to afford shade and retirement. The words arbour, and 
bower, are, properly, very distinct; the former, alone, designating the 
subject of the present article; and the latter, which is not derived 
from f bough ,’ or any analogous word, meaning simply any small 
chamber—yet they are used almost indiscriminately by the best writers. 
Thus Milton— 
“ -alone they passed 
On to their blissful bower : it was a place 
Chosen by the soy’ reign Planter, when he fram’d 
All things to Man’s delightful use ; the roof 
Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, 
Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew 
Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side 
Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, 
Fenced up the verdant wall; each beauteous flower— 
Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, 
Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought 
Mosaic : underfoot the violet, 
Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay 
Broidered the ground—more coloured than with stone 
Of costliest emblem.” 
Morning comes at length— 
“ So all was cleared, and to the fields they haste. 
But first, from under shady arborous roof, &c. &c.” 
