ace porch
into a gay garden room, with a few screens of trellis and many flower
boxes of shrubs and vines. Here indeed is a delightful medium for your
fancy!

Trelliage and lattice work are often used as interchangeable terms, but
mistakenly, for any carpenter who has the gift of precision can build a
good lattice, but a trellis must have architectural character. Trellis
work is not necessarily flimsy construction; the light chestnut laths
that were used by the old Frenchmen and still remain to us prove that.

Always in a garden I think one must feel one has not come to the end,
one must go on and on in search of new beauties and the hidden delights
we feel sure must be behind the clipped hedges or the trellis walls.
Even when we come to the end we are not quite sure it is the end, and we
steep ourselves in seclusion and quiet, knowing full well that to-morrow
or to-night perhaps when the moon is up and we come back as we promise
ourselves to do, surely we shall see that ideal corner that is the last
word of the perfection of our dream garden--that delectable spot for
which we forever seek!

We can bring back much of the charm of the old-time gardens by a
judicious use of trellis. It is suitable for every form of outdoor
construction. A new garden can be subdivided and made livable in a few
months with trellis screens, where hedges, even of the quick growing
privet, would take years to grow. The entrance to the famous maze at
Versailles, now, alas, utterly destroyed, was in trellis, and I have
reproduced in our own garden at Villa Trianon, in Versailles, the
entrance arch and doors, all in trellis. Our high garden fence with its
curving gate is also in trellis, and you can imagine the joy with which
we watched the vines grow, climbing over the gatetop as gracefully as if
they too felt the charm of the curving tracery of green strips, and
cheerfully added the decoration of their leaves and tendrils.

[Illustration: MRS. ORMOND G. SMITH'S TRELLIS ROOM AT CENTER ISLAND, NEW
YORK]

Our outdoor trellis is at the end of the Villa Trianon garden, in line
with the terrace where we take our meals. This trellis was rebuilt many
times before it satisfied me, but now it is my greatest joy. The niches
are planned to hold two old statues and several prim box trees. I used
very much the same constructive design on one of the walls of the Colony
Club trellis room, but there a fountain has the place of honor.
Formal pedestals surm