STATUARY, TREILLAGE AND GARDEN FURNITURE. 



Seats . 



FIG. 222. A ROSE ARCH SCREEN AT FOOTS CRAY PLACE. 



that, although they must be used to emphasize the design and punctuate particular points, 

 the smaller and more portable tubs will also be required. Filled with sweet bays of 

 either the mop-headed or pyramidal varieties they are particularly useful, while, in the 

 town courtyard, a screen of greenery may be contrived by placing a row of Thuja 

 Lobbii or Cupressus erecta viridis in tubs as close together as possible, to form a hedge. 



FIG. 223. 



It is on a paved 

 country house over- 

 lawns, however, that 

 most useful. Such a 

 somewhat exposed to 

 the tub is far better 

 trived in the paving, 

 removed in the Winter, 

 also be placed on the 

 wall to mark the sides 

 or at intervals to 



terrace in front of a 

 looking gardens and 

 the tree-filled tub is 

 position is usually 

 winds, and therefore 

 than a soil bed con- 

 as the tree can be 

 Tree-filled tubs may 

 flat coping of a terrace 

 of flights of steps, 

 punctuate its length, 

 stone finials would be 



FIG. 225. 



FIG. 224. 



and especially where 



too formal and obtrusive. For such positions a rather squatter tub is usually desirable 

 than when it stands inside the parapet in order to prevent a top-heavy appearance. 



Garden seats may be of wood, stone or iron. Of these three materials there is no 

 doubt that, in this climate, wood is the only one which is really satisfactory. For 

 eleven months of the year, the other two are so cold as to be quite comfortless, and 

 even dangerous to the health, though, of course, there is no reason why stone seats 

 should not be fitted with a wooden grating, which can be removed in bad weather, and. 

 in the case of a classically detailed terrace wall which demands a seat on traditional 



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