SEATS. 



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turf. Portable seats are formed of 

 wood, sometimes contrived to have the 

 back of the seat folded down when 

 the seat is not in use ; so as to ex- 

 clude the weather and avoid the dirt 

 of birds which are apt to perch on 

 them. Another kind of portable seat, 

 which is frequently formed in iron, 

 in the form of Fig. 28, is shown in 

 readily wheeled from one part of the 

 grounds to another ; and the back of 



Fig. 28. 



MOVEABLE GARDEN SEAT. 



which also folds down to protect the 

 seat from the weather. There is a 

 kind of camp stool which serves as a 

 portable seat, imported from Norway, 

 and sold at the low price of 2s. 6c?. 

 or 3s. ; and there are also straw seats 

 like half beehives, which are, how- 

 ever, only used in garden-huts or in 

 any situations under cover, because 

 in the open air they would be liable 

 to be soaked with rain. There are a 

 great variety of rustic seats formed of 

 roots and crooked branches of trees, 

 used both for the open garden and 

 under cover, and there are also seats 

 of cast and wrought iron of great va- 

 riety of form. There should always 

 be some kind of analogy between the 

 seat and the scene of which it forms 

 a part ; and for this reason rustic 

 seats should be confined to rustic 

 scenery ; and the seats for a lawn or 

 highly-kept pleasure-ground, ought to 

 be of comparatively simple and archi- 

 tectural forms, and either of wood or 

 stone, those of wood being frequently 

 ainted of a stone-colour and sprinkled 

 ver with silver sand before the paint 

 dry, to give them the appearance of 



stone. Iron seats, generally speak- 

 ing, are not sufficiently massive 

 for effect ; and the metal conveys 

 the idea of cold in winter and heat in 

 summer. 



When seats are placed along a walk, 

 a gravelled recess ought to be formed 

 to receive them ; and there ought, 

 generally, to be a foot-board to keep 

 the feet from the moist ground, whe- 

 ther the seat is on gravel or on a 

 lawn. In a garden where there are 

 several seats, some ought to be in 

 positions exposed to the sun, and 

 others placed in the shade, and none 

 ought to be put down in a situation 

 where the back of the seat is seen by 

 a person approaching it before the 

 front. Indeed the backs of all fixed 

 seats ought to be concealed by shrubs, 

 or by some other means, unless they 

 are circular seats placed round a tree. 

 Seats ought not to be put down 

 j where there will be any temptation 

 to the persons sitting on them to 

 strain their eyes to the right or left, 

 nor where the boundary of the garden 

 forms a conspicuous object in the 

 view. In general, all seats should of 

 a stone colour, as harmonizing best 

 with vegetation. Nothing can be 

 more unartistical than seats painted 

 of a pea-green, and placed among the 

 green of living plants. 



Securida^ce. — Polygalece. — Stove 

 climbers from the West Indies, with 

 white flowers, which should be grown 

 in a mixture of peat and loam. 



Securi'gera. — Leguminoses.—The 

 Hatchet Vetch. A hardy annual, 

 with yellow pea-flowers. It requires 

 no other care than sowing in March 

 or April, but as it is very coarse- 

 growing, and requires a great deal of 

 room, it is not suitable for a small 

 garden. This plant was called Coro- 

 rdlla Securidaca by Linnaeus. 



SeWm. — CrassalacecB. — The 

 Stone Crop. Succulent plants with 

 white, red, or yellow flowers. The 



