5i2 Saul's Garden Chair. 



leaves and green, there is a degree of dullness and monotony 

 in introducing leaves and greeq as objects of art. We would 

 rather have had some architectural or artificial form, and 

 certainly would have had that form of any colour rather than 

 green, unless, perhaps, blue. A stone colour would unques- 

 tionably contrast best with those of vegetation and the sky. A 

 garden seat composed of natural forms painted in their natural 

 colours, we consider to rank about the same scale in art as 

 a model of the human figure in coloured waxwork: both 

 mimic nature, instead of imitating her. To those of cur 

 readers who wish to pursue this subject, and who understand 

 French, we recommend the Jii&mi sur l' Imitation dafis les 

 Beaux Arts, of Quatremere de Quincy. There is no correspond- 

 ing work in the English language ; but in our Encyclopcedia of 

 Architecture we have discussed the object of imitation, as far as 

 that art is concerned ; and in our forthcoming jE;?r7/c/o/?^c^m of 

 Landscape' Gardening we shall have an opportunity of further 

 considering and applying the subject. We shall only add, at 

 present, that it is one of so much importance in all the arts 

 of taste, that no designer, whether of houses or gardens, or 

 even of garden furniture, ought to neglect the study of it. 



The above was put in type in July, to the end of being 

 published in the Number for August, but want of room 

 prevented the admission of it. We, however, submitted to 

 Mr. Saul, shortly after receiving his present and communi- 

 cation, the amount of the above strictures on the subject. 

 Mr. Saul has since, in a letter dated August 4. 1833, in- 

 formed us of his having devised another chair, in which the 

 seat is supported b}^ legs cast to the pattern of a vine branch, 

 in full bearing of leaves and fruit, and with the depending 

 clusters of fruit made to be removable at pleasure, so as to 

 have them either green, red, or black, according to the time 

 of the year. The leaves for the back remain the same as 

 those 'v[\.fig. 121.5 except that each of the two outside ones is 

 tipped with a sprig of vine bearing a couple of leaves, and 

 the central leaf of the back is surmounted by some floral 

 device. Mr. Saul has added : — *' 1 have raised a bank about 

 15 in. high, so that I can put plants of different kinds in 

 flower in pots under the seat, without their appearing to be 

 in pots, and which have a pleasing effect behind the leaves 

 and fruit of the vine branches. Behind the chair are taller 

 plants, to show themselves in and relieve the intervals of the 

 leaves of the chair's back. On each side of the bank I have 

 placed a number of natural stones, which I have collected 

 from different parts of the neighbourhood, and these have a 

 good effect.'' We like this design still less than the odiei. 

 : — Cond, 



