Garden Structures. 



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GARDEN STRUCTURES. 



Garden seats of either rude or finished workmanship, arc to the 

 ferme ornee, what oriental kiosques, Grecian temples, pagodas, and 

 sculptured figures, are to the grand house and broad park. No 

 cottager, who is the sovereign of the soil he tills, is so poorly off 

 in worldly goods, as not to have the wherewith to spare for the 

 construction of a covered seat, a rustic arbor, or the more archi- 

 tectural summer-house. 



Children love the cosy, vine clad bower. It affords a refuge in 

 their romps, and games ; and in after years, when vexed with 

 commercial care, men are frequently solaced with the tran- 

 quilizing reminiscence of that same delightful arbor and cottage 

 home , when no cares checked their glee, and the world seemed to 

 their trusting credulous minds one bright picture with constant 

 recurring novelties wherein to revel and drink of happiness until 

 gorged with the inspired elixir. Because the arbor and the rustic 

 seat at the terminus of the garden walk is a reflected imagery on 

 children's minds we would feign ^advocate their extension. The 

 summer-house, or covered seat, have, in good truth, no feeling in 

 common with intensely architectural structures, neither are they 

 strictly confined in their construction to the , professional archi- 



