384 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



views of the surrounding country, a seat, by designating 

 those points, and by affording us a convenient mode of enjoy- 

 ing them, has a double recommendation to our minds. 



Open and covered seats are of two distinct kinds ; one 

 architectural, or formed after artist-lilie designs, of stone or 

 wood, in Grecian, Gothic, or other forms ; which may, if they 

 are intended to produce an elegant effect, have vases on pe- 

 destals as accompaniments ; the other, rustic, as they are 

 called, which are formed out of trunks and 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 vio- 

 lence to our feelings and sense of propriety to admit many rus- 

 tic seats and structures of any kind; but architectural decora- 

 lions 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 artificial 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. 



The simplest variety of covered architectural seat, is the 

 latticed arbour for vines of various description, with the seat 

 underneath the canopy of foliage: this may with more pro- 

 priety be introduced in various parts of the grounds than 

 any other of its class, as the luxuriance and natural graceful- 

 ness of the foliage which covers the arbour, in a great mea- 



