STATUARY, TREILLAGE AND GARDEN FURNITURE. 



or terrace scheme, while, to close a vista, a taller arrangement with vertical dials is 

 usually more suitable. Vertical sundials also form a very appropriate ornament for 

 garden houses or for placing over a doorway in a high fruit wall or over the garden 

 entrance to the house, whenever any of these positions will provide a sunny aspect. 



Before turning to the consider- 

 vases and urns of stone, bronze or 

 fault in most vases is that there 

 soil. The best of all methods is 

 wooden soil box to slip inside the 

 months of the year, the tree or 

 removed for shelter without dis- 

 Illustration No. 208 shows a square 

 designed to meet these practical 

 executed in terra-cotta with a sur- 

 grained sandstone. As stated else- 

 especially glazed ones, are to be 

 a form of this material can be 

 sentable, it is better for vases than 



be made 



(. -i 



and so 



more . . 



i 



soil. The 



design 



executed 

 effect- 



ation of wooden garden furniture, 

 lead must be mentioned. The great 

 is far too little accommodation for 

 to have a rough and strongly-made 

 vase, so that, during the worst 

 plant which it contains may be 

 turbing the heavy outer casing, 

 form of vase which I specially 

 requirements, and which has been 

 face closely resembling a smooth- 

 where, other kinds of terra-cotta, 

 avoided in the garden, but where 

 obtained which is aesthetically pre- 

 stone, for the sides and bottom may 



thinner, 

 there is 

 room for 

 same . . 

 - might be 



flu 



FIG. 2O6. SUNDIAL SHOWING A DUTCH INFLUENCE IN ITS DESIGN. 



v e r y . . 

 ively in 



lead, but there are so many small lead cisterns of clever and quaint old workmanship 

 to be obtained which will answer the purpose admirably (His. Nos. 209 and 210) that it is 



hardly necessary to make one specially 

 unless circumstances demand a given 

 size and shape, or a number of 

 similar pattern are required, as when 

 they are to be placed at regular 

 intervals 

 along a ter- 

 race walk or 

 instead of 

 finials to the 

 balustrade. 

 Lead or 

 stone urns, 

 such as those 

 made by the 

 Bromsgrove 

 Guild shown 

 in illustra- 

 tions Nos. 2ii 

 and 212, are FIG- 2o8 _ 



Terra 



FIG. 207. 



eminently ad- 

 apted for the latter purpose but, in choosing these, care should be taken that nothing is 

 introduced into the garden which suggests either a cinery urn or the one beloved of the 

 monumental mason. Of these, again, and also the pineapple finial which fulfils much the 



Vases and 



urns . 



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