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used for shady walks. He also says that vast urns, or vases of trelliage, 
filled with some plant growing within them, and clipped to their form, 
formed a common accompaniment to fhe trelliage arbour. 
These dry quotations show what was the style of arbour then in 
use, in which little alteration has since been made. The expense that 
was then gone to, however, in the gilding and decoration of these 
trelliages, was incredible. Lystor mentions two which cost sixteen 
thousand livres. 
The object in this was, that as during the severe winter, and the 
height of summer, the trelliage was nearly laid bare by the frost, or 
by the parching sun; so it was important to make it look well, even 
then. 
Fig. 5 is an example of the old French and Italian arbour. 
The best and handsomest arbours of this class that we have seen, 
are those in the gardens of the Duke of Baden at Schweitzingen, 
between the Rhine and the Maine. These gardens, attached to the 
ancient castle of the Marquesses of Baden (now only used as a 
hunting lodge), are of considerable extent, and are filled with a profuse 
variety of ornament, in a mixed style, between the old French and the 
German. 
The great garden area immediately behind the castle, is laid down 
in a great circle, divided into various grass plots, fountains, basins, 
&c. Sic., all of respectable magnitude: the semi-circumference of the 
circle, next the castle, is surrounded by hothouses, which form its 
extreme wings; but the remote semi-circumference is entirely sur¬ 
rounded by a broad walk, covered by an arched wooden trelliage, with 
equi-distant arched openings all along the sides, these at one side 
permit a free view of the great circle with all its varied garniture, 
while at the other they open into a succession of close and secluded 
bowers. 
The whole is uniformly and luxuriantly covered with the Virginian 
creeper (Ampelopsis hederdcea.) 
(To be continued.) 
