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The garden and its accessories (1907)

Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 68

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n ingenious device for adding comfortto a garden, and is as capable of showingarchitectural beauty as a summer-house orpergola. In Elizabethan days arbors were oftencalled green galleries or pleached al-leys ; these terms being applied to a seriesof arches upon which trees were trained,until… … o o THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES esque in a garden. All that is needed ispatience and care in pruning the trees intoan arched form. There are many quick-growing varieties such as the willows, buck-thorns, or even fruit trees, that readily lendthemselves to this treatment, and one wouldhave to…

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