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and money were often lavished. They seem to have had their origin 
in Italy, and thence to have passed into France. Lyster, in his travels. 
Fig 4. 
anno 1698, gives descriptions of many which he saw. In the garden 
of the Hotel d’Aumont, he says, “ the trelliage at the upper end of 
the garden was very well adorned with gilding, and had in the middle 
a pavilion in which was an old Roman statue of a young man, &c. &c.” 
In the Hotel Pelletier, “ the garden here was very neat with a 
trelliage at the end, after the manner of a triumphal arch. In two 
niches were placed great iron vases, or flower pots, and right before 
the middle a basin of water, which was set playing for our entertain¬ 
ment. Along the walls were planted abele trees, whose tops were 
disposed upon an iron trelliage into arches at equal distances, &c. &c. 
The best piece of trelliage of iron bars and wood intermixed, is in the 
garden of Monsieur Louvois. The whole upper end is adorned with 
a noble trelliage, after the manner of a triumphal arch : it cost a great 
sum of money. There are four statues disposed on pedestals under 
it; on one side of the trelliage is an aviary well stored with birds, &c.” 
We are also informed that pots of Sedum pyramidale , vases of iron 
with double red and striped stocks in them, and ranunculus, brought 
at great price from Constantinople, formed distinguished ornaments 
of these arbours. 
In his description of the gardens of St. Cloud, he says, “ There are 
many arbours of trelliage, pavilions, &c. of iron mixed with wood, 
painted green, with honeysuckles running up to them.” The tree 
most in use here was the small-leaved horn-bean, which serves for 
arcades, berceaux, &c. The marronier , or horse-chestnut is chiefly 
