that China and Japan both employed the trellis in their
decorative schemes. You will find a most daring example on your old blue
willow plate, if you will look closely enough. The bridge over which the
flying princess goes to her lover is a good model, and could be built in
many gardens. Even a tiny modern garden, yours or mine, might hold this
fairy bridge.

Almost all Arabian decorations have their basis in trellis design or
arabesques filled in with the intricate tracery that covers all their
buildings. If we examine the details of the most famous of the old
Moorish buildings that remain to us, the mosque at Cordova and the
Alhambra at Granada, we shall find them full of endless trellis
suggestions. Indeed, there are many documents still extant showing how
admirably trellis decoration lends itself to the decoration of gardens
and interiors. There are dozens of examples of niches built to hold fine
busts. Pavilions and summer houses, the quaint gazebos of old England,
the graceful screens of trellis that terminate a long garden path, the
arching gateways crowned with vines--all these may be reproduced quite
easily in American gardens.

The first trellis work in France was inspired by Italy, but the French
gave it a perfection of architectural character not found in other
countries. The manuscript of the "Romance of the Rose," dating back to
the Fifteenth Century, contains the finest possible example of trellis
in a medieval garden. Most of the old French gardens that remain to us
have important trellis construction. At Blois one still sees the remains
of a fine trellis covering the walls of the kitchen gardens. Wonderful
and elaborate trellis _pavillons_, each containing a statue, often
formed the centers of very old gardens. These garden houses were called
gazebos in England, and _Temples d'Amour_ (Temples of Love) in France,
and the statue most often seen was the god of Love. In the Trianon
gardens at Versailles there is a charming _Temple d'Amour_ standing on a
tiny island, with four small canals leading to it.

A knowledge of the history of trelliage and an appreciation of its
practical application to modern needs is a conjurer's wand--you can wave
it and create all sorts of ephemeral constructions that will last your
time and pleasure. You may give your trellis any poetic shape your
vision may take. You may dream and realize enchanting gardens, with
clipped hedges and trellis walls. You may transform a commonpl