April, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
277 
Now in the Light 
front border of pansies had been another 
delight all through June, and still had 
blossoms until August, though in not such 
profusion. 
We now had more time for the aes¬ 
thetic features that every well-designed 
garden should have—rose arches, a back 
trellis, rose and grape trellisses. He who 
would be a gardener must also be some¬ 
what of a carpenter, unless he is one of 
those unfortunate creatures who “have" 
things done for them by the mere act of 
waving a five-dollar bill about in the air. 
Such rob themselves of their rightful 
pleasures as much as if they hired an 
Italian to run their garden for them. Both 
double and single hairpin rose arches are 
easy to make. You need some }i" x %" 
3'ellow pine stock sixteen feet long, 
straight-grained and free from knots and 
checks, also “dressed four sides,” a mill 
term, meaning planed smooth on all sides. 
Beginning at the middle of your stick, saw 
cuts for 2y 2 feet each way three-quarters 
through the wood, making a cut at every 
inch. The stick will now bend readily 
into an arch about three feet wide without 
requiring steaming. Put the feet about a 
foot into the ground and paint white or 
green, according to the color scheme of 
your garden. To- make a double arch, 
plant two hairpins about a foot apart, side 
by side, and join with cross pieces at every 
foot around the arch and up both sides. 
These cross pieces ought to be about 
twenty inches long to give a pretty over¬ 
lap, and must be screwed in place, as the 
arch will not stand much nailing. We put 
a double arch at the garden gate and single 
arches at ends of paths, etc., growing a 
pair of rambler roses over each arch and 
using both Dorothy Perkins and Crimson 
Rambler roses. 
For rose and grape trellises on the walls 
of the house I used x yellow 
pine stock, making various forms of verti¬ 
cal and horizontal ladder trellises, up¬ 
rights and horizontals being about two 
feet six inches apart. The whole east 
wall of the house is now covered with 
Dorothy Perkins (pink), Crimson (red), 
and Philadelphia (large red) ramblers, be¬ 
sides four Niagara white grape vines, 
which have grown twenty feet long since 
planting two years ago. 
We used up a lot of this square stock in 
the tomato and grape trellises and for 
dahlia stakes. Starting with nine dahlia 
roots (a tuber like a sweet potato) the 
first year, we dug up a peach basket full of 
them at the end of the season, enough to 
fill, bv dividing the clusters of tubers, the 
five 10-foot beds between the peach trees. 
At the end of the next season, in the Great 
December Dahlia Digging, we had over a 
bushel of them, and had to clear more land 
to find a place for the “dam-dahlias”. 
Now. every dahlia needs its own stake 
01 F Mil tumble over and be a disgrace at 
the first severe thunderstorm, so, at ten 
cents a stake, as bought from the florist’s, 
the increase in our dahlias bade fair to 
bankrupt the establishment. We took 
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