NEB&W Guide to Backyard Trellises, Arbors, & Garden PergolasThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2007-04-11
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"Trellis" comes from Latin, meaning "woven from three threads". "Arbor" originally in Latin meant "tree", but apparently through French, the term came to mean a shady spot (shaded by trees) in a garden. A "pergola" is also from Latin, meaning an arbor or passageway with a roof of trelliswork. Open designs like this could also be free-standing and horizontal, and thus a fence.
- [Trellises
and fences, from the 1937 Amateur Craftsman.]
- [Garden
seats, from the 1941 Giant
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