ARBOUR, among gardeners, a kind of shady bower or cabinet, contrived to take the air in. See GARDEN. Arbours are now much into disuse, by reason their seats, apt to be moist, are unwholesome. They are distinguished into natural and artificial.
Natural Arbours, are formed only of the branches of trees, interwoven artfully, and borne up by strong latticework, poles, hoops, etc., which make galleries, halls, porticoes, and green vistas naturally covered. The trees with which these arbours are formed are usually the female elms, or Dutch lime-trees; in regard they easily yield, and by their great quantity of small boughs, form a thick brushwood: the lower parts are filled up with hornbeam.
Artificial Arbours, and cabinets are made of latticework, borne up by standards, cross-rails, circles and arches of iron. For which purpose they make use of small fillets of oak, which being planed and made straight, are wrought in checkers, and fastened with wire.
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- Written by: Ephraïm Chambers
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