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vases on pedestals as accompaniments ; the other, rustic^ 

 as they are called, which are formed out of trunks ana 

 branches of trees, roots, etc., in their natural forms. 



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 

 correctly 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 

 predominant (as the distant wooded parts or walks of a 

 residence), architectural, or, in other words, highly arti- 

 ficial 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 artistical vase and statue, most properly 

 accompany the beautiful landscape garden : while rustic 

 baskets, or vases, are the most fitting decorations of the 

 Picturesque Landscape Garden. 



The simplest variety of covered architectural seat is the 

 latticed arbor for vines of various descriptions, with the 

 seat underneath the canopy of foliage ; this may with 

 more propriety be introduced in various parts of the 

 grounds than any other of its class, as the luxuriance and 

 natural gracefulness of the foliage which covers the arbor, 

 in a great measure destroys or overpowers the expression 

 of its original form. Lattice arbors, however, neatly 



