Work with nature,
the way the old-timers did, to create a lush, easy-to-maintain
country landscape.
From Arthur's Home Magazine, 1870
Arbors covered with flowering vines are very pretty, and so are
arches over entrances and gateways. These are not necessarily
expensive, but can be made by any one who can handle a hatchet, a
hammer, and a spade, and when completed they will vie in elegance
and beauty with those of far more pretending construction.
There is nothing prettier than rustic work, and this any one can
accomplish. Two beanpoles placed one each side of a gateway, and
united at the top by a discarded barrel-hoop, or by cross-pieces
of shorter poles, make an excellent framework for morning-glories
to run upon. The same design carried still further, and made to
form six or eight sides, and almost any of the climbers trained
over it, will become a beautiful summer house.
A single pole with strings set out some three or four feet from
its base, and fastened at the top of the pole, the strings
furnishing support for Cyprus vine, scarlet runner, nasturtium, or
any of the climbers, makes a fine pyramid of bloom, and will form
a striking centre for a flower-garden.
