STRUCTURES. 



THE word that heads this chapter is intended to refer to a number 

 of art features that are incidentally introduced into the garden or 

 the park, such as Seats, Pavilions, Bridges, etc. ; the appropriateness 

 of which, in their design and for their position, is a consideration of 

 importance. And besides these there is the question to be treated 

 of boundary fencing and of divisional fencing, within the limits of 

 the estate one of the most difficult details of arrangement in the 

 whole subject. 



The place for a seat should be chosen most carefully, with full 

 consideration of its aspect, the prospect from its position, and the 

 influence of its surroundings. The object of raising a seat is for 

 rest, and so far as the scene can minister to placidity and retire- 

 ment, it should be made to do so. If the seat be in a pavilion 

 attached to or near the house, the architectural features of the 

 structure must be consonant with those of the greater building. 

 Such architectural seats will almost always be at no great distance 

 from the house, even when one is placed in an old-fashioned herb 

 garden. In the landscape garden, where positions with purely 

 natural surroundings may be found, the conditions that tempt to rest 

 and delightful contemplation will most frequently be discovered, and 

 there the character of the structure should be, almost without variation, 

 rustic. The first-mentioned seats, temples, or pavilions will be built 



