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Give a trellis to your garden, like the ancient Romans
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If you go to the house of Maecenas in Rome or the House of the
Wedding of Alexander in Pompeii, Italy, you will see little trellis-
work fences painted in garden scenes on 2,000-year-old Roman walls.
Although the fences have long vanished, we have these visual records
to prove lattice as we know it comes to us from ancient Rome.
The lattice work of Pompeii was composed of a giant reed, Arundo
dondax, which closely resembles bamboo. The assembly yielded an open
square or more often the ...
