SEATS, AND OTHER GARDEN ORNAMENTS. 



Seats are essential to pleasure grounds. They may be of various forms and 

 character. Open seats may be made of wire, some of lattice work, and others 

 of round larch rods, or crooked oak branches. Latticed seats should be formed 

 of four or five screeds of deal, one inch thick by two broad, and. six or seven 

 feet long, (leaving half an inch between each), and nailed upon three neat 

 trusses or bearers, with or without backs. If backs are attached, they should 

 be neat, light, and ornamental. 



The Rustic Open Seats, of larch and oak, are formed similar to the other, 

 or by nailing the rods across two long bearers, with or without backs, with feet 

 at each end, in the manner generally practised ; always minding to have the 

 cross rods even and easy to sit upon. The two former kinds of seats should 

 be placed in the dress grounds, and those composed of larch and oak in more 

 rural scenery. Covered seats are indispensable structures to afford shelter 

 from rain, sun, and wind. Some should be ornamental, composed of boards 

 and lattice work, or wire, beautified in the inside with cornices and plain or 

 fluted panels. Beautiful ornamental wood houses are necessary, having 

 windows and doors made to lock up. These may be used as reading rooms : 

 others may be of a ruder character, yet still architectural, composed of boards, 

 varied by nailing straight rods of larch, or hazel, over them, inside as well 

 as outside, forming panels, or other devices. Fir cones, also, may be used for 

 embellishing the inside. These seats should have low, broad, or old English 

 windows of glass, in diamonds of lead. 



Grottos, or Mineral and Shell Seats. — These may be round, octagonal, 

 octagonally ovated, or of other fancy forms ; built first with brick, then coated 

 over on the outside with small fancy stones, or sea pebbles, fixed in cement 

 or mortar. They should have windows on each side of the door, either Gothic 

 or old English ; the inside must be panelled, beautified with rich minerals, 

 shells, and pebbles, and mingled with different kinds of mosses, especially the 

 blue, (such as are to be found amongst ling and on trees), and the knotted 

 kind, which is white when dried, and which grows in moist or wet places. 



