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There are particular sites where each of these kinds of 

 seats, or structures, is, in good taste, alone admissible. In 

 the proximity of elegant and decorated buildings where all 

 around has a polished air, it would evidently be doing 

 violence to our feelings and sense of propriety to admit 

 many rustic seats and structures of any kind; but archi- 

 tectural decorations and architectural seats are there cor- 



FIG. 28. A RUSTIC SEAT OF CEMENT 



rectly introduced. For the same reason, also, as we have 

 already suggested, that the sculptured forms of vases, etc., 

 would be out of keeping in scenes where nature is predomi- 

 nant (as the distant wooded parts or walks of a residence), 

 architectural, or, in other words, highly artificial seats, 

 would not be in character: but rustic seats and structures, 

 which, from the nature of the materials employed and the 

 simple manner of their construction, appear but one remove 

 from natural forms, are felt at once to be in unison with the 

 surrounding objects. Again, the mural and highly artis- 



