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course, a measure of privacy and quiet seclusion may 
be made possible. As one gardener tenderly puts it, 
even the flowers and shrubs enjoy the retreat, for they 
luxuriate in the shelter and their sweet fragrance is not 
dispersed by rude winds. 
Lattice seats and arbors are well known. A wide 
arch, some two feet wide, with lattice at the sides and 
back and a comfortable low seat across, is all that is 
necessary to provide a good covered seat. An arbor 
is somewhat more effort. A popular type consists of 
two arches several feet apart according to the desired 
size. These are connected with horizontal joists and 
then all covered with lattice. Seats are readily lo¬ 
cated inside using the lattice as the back. 
You can also unite the house with the garage, 
either by an actual lattice fence or pergola, or simply 
by repeating a decorative lattice motive that both 
structures will have in common. The lattice motive 
proves-an excellent device for a large estate, taking its 
place in turn over a garage, an arbor, a pergola, a 
bath house, the outlying farm buildings, and even in 
the post for tennis enclosures, making each one iden¬ 
tified with the entire group instead of seeming to be 
independent isolated structures. 
ACHIEVING SOME MEASURE OF SECLUSION 
Cool looking, decorative, and in harmony with the dwelling this lattice of simple 
design makes a successful screen and offers support for Roses, Clematis, or 
other flowering climbers. Home of Mrs. Elon H. Hooker at Greenwich, Conn. 
left wing of a house to balance a glassed-in porch on the right 
wing. The small panes of glass were excellently supplemented 
by the pattern of the lattice. Here it was not intended to grow 
vines upon the lattice, but purely to serve an architectural 
purpose. Lattice is often used to emphasize the architectural 
divisions of a facade, or of the interior of a room, by means of 
contrasting color and body. In these instances it is constructed 
in panels or arches over doorways and window openings or other 
structural features. These architectural uses of lattice will 
commend themselves to every real lover of nature who has sacri¬ 
ficed the ready-made advantages of the city for just a small place 
in the country. 
One of the most important of all its exterior functions is that 
of shutting out from the street view or living quarters, the in¬ 
evitable unsightly places about the premises. The alternative 
adornment of the backyard and service portion is essential to 
any harmonious garden scheme. Lattice fences, pergolas, and 
gateways are admirable here, serving perfectly their purpose 
and adding their unique decorative quality. If it is not desired 
to have the fence entirely of lattice, distinction may be had by 
adding a finish of lattice at the top. The depth of this should 
be in pleasing proportion to the height of the fence. Usually 
two feet or less is agreeable, and the diamond pattern rather 
than a right-angled one has a more decorative effect. Another 
pleasing procedure is to build lattice all along the surface of the 
plain board fence but about three inches away, to permit vines 
to be trailed over it. This again makes virtue of necessity and 
is entirely worth any effort that may be expended upon it. 
There is a psychological as well as a practical aspect to the 
screening of a garden with lattice if it is judiciously done. By 
partially concealing some portions of it from immediate view, 
imagination is aroused in picturing the step beyond that is co- 
quettishly tempting the interest of the spectator. And, of 
T HE use of lattice work in this country, while 
novel in its simplicity, was not a new idea. 
Wherever wood construction has been in vogue, lat¬ 
tice has been used the world over. China, Japan, 
India, and Burmah each has its characteristic treat¬ 
ment worked out with wonderful elaboration and 
finish, its highest development was seen in France 
in the middle of the eighteenth century, when it flow¬ 
ered out in architectural glory unmatched by anything 
before or since. 1 he same minds that laid out the 
wonderful gardens of those extravagant days, also 
created arbors, retreats, pavilions and all manner of 
charming treillage structures for those gardens. They 
were either of green, blending in a concealing color with the 
foliage, or white and gay in vivacious contrast. 
The English mean by treillage much what we designate by 
the word lattice in its simplest form: a fence or screen composed 
of posts, connected by a rail at the top aud at the foot, and filled 
in between with a diagonal trellis and to be hidden as quickly 
as possible by Ivy or some similar creeper of thick growth. In 
France it is quite different, and the feeling there is that any 
skilful carpenter can erect lattice, but treillage is a matter for 
the professional architect. In France, treillage is one of the 
conspicuous architectural features of the garden executed with 
fine detail. If covered at all, it is given delicate vines of fine 
foliage which will reveal rather than conceal the woodwork. 
I he garden pavilions in the classic mode so popular in eigh¬ 
teenth century France underwent little change in their transi¬ 
tion from stone to an expression in lattice work. An American 
architect bewails this lamentable lack of imagination and finds 
therein a mind wearied by excess, and an artistic sensitiveness 
unaroused by any real need. Here, unlike our Colonial carpen¬ 
ters, they found the latticed arbor not a necessity at all, but as 
one more adjunct to a life of gaiety and pleasure. 
Elaborate trellis pavilions, each containing a statue, often 
found themselves conspicuous elements in French gardens. The 
statue was generally the God of Love, and their settings were 
called Temples d’Amour. 
Not only in the gardens of France was treillage used so ex¬ 
tensively, but in the homes themselves. Especially in conser¬ 
vatories, corridors, balconies, glass-houses, and wherever it was 
desired to retain a garden-like or outdoor effect indoors, its use 
was quite general. One of its unique uses results from its adap¬ 
tability for perspective effects. By placing the strips cleverly, a 
flat panel may be made to look like a recess, and thus add to the 
apparent size of the room. Its use indoors where the weather 
