House and Garden 
and tell of curious superstitions which are 
only just passing away, of bygone romances, 
stories of love and murder, of smugglers 
and their ways, when every house had its 
secret hiding place, and every cart its false 
bottom for the concealment of the goods 
that paid no duty. Our inns have many 
stories to tell us of the old coaching days 
when the villages were alive with excitement, 
and kings and queens, noblemen and high¬ 
waymen thronged the roads and slept in the 
quaint hostelries in old-fashioned four-posted 
beds between lavender-scented sheets. Very 
picturesque are those old inns in their decay. 
Silence reigns, and the grass grows green in 
the once busy stable yard. In our tour 
through the lanes and roads of England, we 
find many such inns, and perhaps we may 
be able to glance at a few of their picturesque 
features ere our wanderings end. 
PERGOLAS AND LOGGIAS 
By Phebe Westcott Humphreys 
/ T V HE “green gallery” of medieval days 
has come to have a widely diversified 
meaning when applied to the ornamental 
gardening features of the American country 
seat. There are few examples in this country 
to-day of the original type of “green gallery” 
known to the ancients. Of the few, there is 
one that is widely known. It is a stately, 
oval pergola still standing at Arlington—that 
beautiful spot which was once the home of 
the Virginia Lees, and is now the home of 
the honored dead of our Civil War. This 
old pergola is of unusual dimensions, being 
twenty feet wide between the pillars, and 
forming an oval one hundred feet long and 
seventy feet wide. It has remained unharmed 
through many 
fierce conflicts, 
and with each 
returning spring 
it displays a 
wealth of ver¬ 
dure and bloom 
from the many 
vines with which 
it is wreathed. 
It is of wondrous 
beauty when full 
of greenery, and 
the people of the 
South who know 
and love it never 
call it a pergola, 
but give it its ap¬ 
propriate old-time name of “green gallery;” 
a name of such quaint dignity that it seems 
peculiarly adapted to many of the stately 
pergolas and loggias of to-day. 
The loggia is still unfamiliar in American 
gardens, except in copies of formal Italian 
gardens, and a few old Colonial gardens. 
The pergola—though the word was seldom 
heard here a century ago—is now recognized 
as an important feature in garden decoration. 
Nor do we consider it merely from its decora¬ 
tive standpoint. We are learning to appre¬ 
ciate the comfort of its shelter, its promotion 
of sociability—now that it is indispensable 
for informal teas and garden parties—and 
its use as a connecting link between the house 
and its sur¬ 
roundings. 
In its original 
use in the gar¬ 
dens of Italy, 
the pergola was 
merely a sort of 
gallery or bal¬ 
cony in a house; 
but it soon came 
to be applied to 
various forms of 
stately arbors in 
the garden. 
1 he Italian log¬ 
gia was, original¬ 
ly, a step higher 
as a decorative 
A CLASSIC PERGOLA 
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