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SEATS. 
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SEATS. 
Sea-sipE Batsam.—Croton Eleu- 
téria.— A native of Jamaica.—See 
Cro‘ron. = 
SEats fongegpens are either open 
or covered; the latter being in the 
form of root-houses, huts, pavilions, 
temples, grottoes, &c., and the for- 
mer being either fixed, temporary, 
or portable. Fixed seats are com- 
monly of stone, either plain stone 
benches without backs, or stone 
supports to wooden benches. Some- 
times, also, wooden seats are fixed, 
as when they are placed round a 
tree, or when boards are nailed to 
posts, or when seats are formed in | 
imitation of mushrooms, as in the 
grounds at Redleaf. Fixed seats 
are also sometimes formed of turf. 
Portable seats are formed of wood, 
sometimes contrived to have the 
back of the seat folded down when 
the seat is not in use; so as to ex- 
clude the weather, and avoid the 
dirt of birds which are apt to perch 
on them. ‘Another kind of portable 
seat, which is frequently formed in 
iron, as shown in jig. 49, is readily 
Fig. 49.—Moveable*Garden Seat. 
wheeled from one part of the grounds 
to another; and the back of which 
also folds down to protect the seat 
from the weather. There is a kind 
of camp-stool which serves as a 
portable seat, imported from Nor- 
way, and sold at the low price of 
2s. 6d. or 3s.; and there are als 
straw seats, like half beehives, whic 
are, however, only used in garden- 
huts, or in any situation under cover, 
because in the open air they would 
be lable to be soaked with rain. 
There area great variety of rustic 
seats formed of roots and crooked 
branches of trees, used both for the 
open garden and under cover; and 
there are also seats of cast and 
wrought iron, of great variety of form. 
There should always be some kind 
of analogy between the seat and 
the scene of which it forms a part; 
and for this reason rustic seats 
should be confined to rustic scene- 
ry; and the seats fora lawn 
or highly kept pleasure-ground 
ought to be of comparatively simple 
and architectural forms, and either 
of wood or stone, those of wood being 
frequently painted of a stone colour, 
and sprinkled over with silver sand 
before the paint is dry, to give them 
the appearance of stone. Iron seats, 
generally speaking, are not suffi- 
cieutly massive for effect; and the 
metal conveys the idea of cold in 
winter and heat in summer. 
When seats are placed along a 
walk, a gravelled recess ought to), 
be formed to receive them; and 
there ought, generally, to be a foot- 
board to keep the feet from the 
moist ground, whether the seat is 
on gravel or on al awn. Ina gar- 
den where there are several seats, 
some ought to be in positions ex- 
posed to the sun, and others placed 
in the shade, and none ought to be 
put down in a situation where the 
back of the seat is seen by a person 
approaching it before the front. In- 
deed the backs of all fixed seats 
ought to be concealed by shrubs, or 
by some other means, unless they 
are circular seats placed round a 
tree. Seats ought not to be put 
down where there will be any tempt- 
ation to the persons sitting on them 
to strain their eyes to the night or 
| left, nor where the boundary of the 
garden forms a conspicuous object 
in the view. In general, all seats 
should be of a stone colour, as har- 
monizing best with vegetation. No- 
thing can be more unartistical than 
seats painied of a pea-green, and 
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