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attractive s ti ni m e r- 
hoiise. It will need 
no furniture except a 
seat made of material 
that harmonizes with 
that used in constructing the pergola; and even when 
the vines are hare and the garden buried in snow, it 
will furnish a pleasant retreat at midday, when the 
sun is bright. 
The primary design of the pergola was to turnish a 
support for growing vines. It certainly appears to 
the best advantage when it is put to some such pur¬ 
pose. ^Tt the pergola shown in Figure 2 was 
SHUM.VN’s pergola, BEVERLY COVE, MASS. 
obviously planned to serve the purpose of ornamen¬ 
tation only. It is an American adaptation of an 
Italian ideal. We cannot deny that it perfectly ful- 
hls its mission as it terminates the garden walk, and 
caps the hold bluff at the edge of the beach, with its 
unobstructed outlook seaward. 
In Figure i is shown an admirable specimen 
copied after Italian models, with rounded Doric 
columns of concrete, 
brick walk, privet 
hedges, and a delicate 
tracery of vines of the 
Clematis “Jackmani, 
which ‘merely drapes 
the classic outlines, 
with a decorative 
effect, but which is not 
sufficiently heavy to 
veil any one of its at¬ 
tractions from our 
admiring gaze. 
What a transforma¬ 
tion is caused, in Fig¬ 
ure 7, by the American 
adaptation of the Ital¬ 
ian theme! Flere we 
have the graveled 
walk, and the simple 
slatted settee. Great 
cedar posts furnish 
both uprights and 
transverse beams, 
firmly braced, to 
themselves. O c c a- 
sionally one is built 
partly or entirely of 
concrete, and often a 
pergola is seen, in 
w'hose case one row of 
columns is omitted, the 
missing support being 
supplied by the garden 
wall, or by the end of 
house or out-building, 
d'his single sided per¬ 
gola is particularly 
satisfactory in grounds 
where space is limited. 
It may then he placed 
at one end or at one 
side of the garden, 
where its covering of 
vines will render it an 
FIG. 3—AN INTERESTING PORCH PERGOLA 
