. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Gardens for Small Country Houses. 179 CHAPTER XVI.^THE PERGOLA. Italian Pergolas—English, of Oak—Of Larch Poles—With Stone, Brick and Tile Piers—• Proportions—Garlands on Chains—Suitable Plants—Covered Alleys—Treillage. WHEN one considers how commonly some kind of pergola is used in Italy, it would seem a matter for wonder that it has taken so long to reach us in England, for twenty years ago it had hardly been thought of. But now it is a familiar garden feature, and, translating its original use as a convenient means of growing vines and ripening g
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Gardens for Small Country Houses. 179 CHAPTER XVI.^THE PERGOLA. Italian Pergolas—English, of Oak—Of Larch Poles—With Stone, Brick and Tile Piers—• Proportions—Garlands on Chains—Suitable Plants—Covered Alleys—Treillage. WHEN one considers how commonly some kind of pergola is used in Italy, it would seem a matter for wonder that it has taken so long to reach us in England, for twenty years ago it had hardly been thought of. But now it is a familiar garden feature, and, translating its original use as a convenient means of growing vines and ripening grapes into our English way of having it for the display of beautiful climbing plants, as well as for its comfort as a shady way in summer, its development for our needs has of late years been surprisingly rapid. In fact, so popular has it become that there is scarcely an example of modern garden design in which it does not find a place. It is true that it is often iniudiciously placed. There are many gardens that have not had the benefit of experienced advice, where a poorly - constructed pergola stands in some open place where it has no obvious beginning or end; whereas it should al^^•ays lead from one definite point to another ; one at least being some kind of full-stop, either of summer-house or arbour, or, at any rate, something of definite value in the garden design. As to construction, we follow in the main the Italian prototypes. In many cases the pergola is a mere frame- work of poles (as shown in -'^^g- 255), replaced from year to year, either wholly or in part as the need arises, or it has posts of solid masonry. These are commonly built of rubble, thickly covered with that lime plaster of coarse texture that is so weU used by Italian masons. These columns are sometimes square, but more often round in. FIG. 2 OD- -A PEEGOL.\ ("JF POLES IN Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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