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as oak and teak are the best materials, whether 

 left with their natural colour or painted, but selected 

 deal or pine if frequently painted is quite serviceable. 

 Trellis of interlacing or jointed bars, from its long 

 association with garden architecture, will provide 

 the best types of design for the backs, and some 

 care should be taken to obtain lines of sufficient 

 strength, beauty, and comfort in the legs, arms, and 

 rails. The seats at Ascott (fig. 38), Pitchford 

 Hall (fig. 37), and those shown in figs. 39 and 33, 

 give some suggestions of varying size. 



Loggias and Garden Houses 



The garden shelter, under which we may include 

 verandahs, loggias, garden houses, summer houses, 

 and temples, presents a subject of the utmost import- 

 ance to those who desire to make their garden really 

 useful, and at the same time to give it the complete- 

 ness and the architectural finish which it undoubtedly 

 requires. Of the usefulness of these shelters it 

 would seem almost unnecessary to speak, were it 

 not for the general reluctance to devote sufficient 

 thought and money to them. The loggia and the 

 verandah tempt us from the rooms of the house 



