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.
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