Other Garden Accessories 



I. Garden Seats. — From what I have written 

 in the foregoing sections of this book, it will 

 be evident that I advocate the rigid exclusion 

 from the garden of the so-called ornamental 

 accessories. If I decry "rustic" work on the 

 summer-house, be assured I am equally opposed 

 to it on the garden seat. Moreover, in the 

 latter case, one has to consider the very 

 obvious element of comfort, and I cannot con- 

 ceive a seat to be comfortable, when the back 

 presents an irregular grid-iron to one's shoulder 

 blades, with here and there a knob or branch 

 end to prod your ribs. The garden seat of 

 the ironmonger is expensive, and its iron-work, 

 when of wrought-iron, is always too light, and 

 when of cast-iron is too heavy. 



Moreover, the iron-work rusts unless it be 

 often and carefully painted. 



Tliis kind of seat also has a way of sinking 

 its heels into the turf or gravel. 



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