The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



temptation to linger and rest at other points in the 

 park. Especially at those stations where good 

 views are to be enjoyed, should there be ample pro- 

 vision of seats. In the family garden there ought 

 to be hospitable allowance of both seats and tables, 

 such that meals may be taken, reading made easy, 

 card games enjoyed, and so that those who want 

 merely to sit and visit may find full opportunity. 



Amidst naturalistic surroundings the landscape 

 gardener, of course, will not install the marble 

 tables and seats of the big formal garden, but he 

 will be able to provide substantial wooden benches 

 and furniture of more or less rustic design. The 

 extreme rustic fad of the 'fifties twisted and con- 

 torted tree stems grotesquely woven into settees 

 or chairs should be forgotten ; but the plain rough- 

 sawed or hewn planks of more modern times, 

 stained or weathered, are both appropriate in the 

 picture and comfortable in the using. 



Such seats and tables, it has been suggested, will 

 be placed where there are good views. A more 

 exact, and at the same time a more comprehensive, 

 rule would be to place them at the nodes in the 



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