ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Seats. 



Garden- 

 houses. 



connection with English houses, it was particularly 

 important to have arbours and other shady nooks in 

 the garden. High-backed wooden seats afforded pro- 

 tection from the wind, like 

 the interesting example ex- 

 isting at Canons Ashby, 

 where there is a pretty, 

 though small garden, which 

 was laid out in 1 700. Such 

 benches were painted white 

 or green. Sometimes the 

 seat was round and placed 

 in a corner of the wall; 

 then it might be covered 

 with a circular roof half supported on the top of the 

 wall, half on wooden posts or stone columns. " Having 

 several of these seats facing to each coast," Worlidge 

 says, "be the wind or sun either 

 way, you have a place to defend 

 yourself from it." 



Even such celebrated archi- 

 tects as Inigo Jones and Sir 

 Christopher Wren gave attention 

 to the design of summer-houses. 

 Their appearance always had a 

 touch of quaintness. Either the eaves were made 

 very broad, as in the illustration of the fishing-lodge, 





AN OCTAGONAL GARDEN-HOUSE 



