SEATS. 



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admissible in the highest order of gardens, this endeavour to imitate stone must not, 

 The two first are specimens of the supe- although often done, be tried on those 



Fig. 885. 



rior castings of the Coalbrooke Dale foun- 

 deries ; and the last may, as well as vari- 



ous other forms, be had of any respectable 

 foundery or ironmonger. 



Fig. 887, and forms nearly allied to 

 it, by changing the form of the supports, 



Fig. 887. 



are made of Aberdeen or Peterhead 

 granite, sandstone, or, indeed, any other 

 pavement, and even of coal, as exempli- 

 fied by a specimen made of Fifeshire coal 

 in the late Exhibition. Polished Aber- 

 deen granite seats of this kind are exceed- 

 ingly beautiful, but they become expen- 

 sive from the amount of labour bestowed 

 upon them. Some good specimens exist 

 in the Duke of Buccleuch's gardens at 

 Drumlanrig, the royal grounds at Wind- 

 sor, and elsewhere. 



Fig. 888 is another form of the same 

 material. Richly -carved and highly- 

 architectural chairs are occasionally met 

 with in our gardens ; and these, when 

 newly painted, if sanded over in imitation 

 of stone, have a pretty good effect. But 



whose form and style indicate the mate- 

 rial of which they are formed. Their 

 durability is not proportionable 

 to their cost; for, as garden orna- 

 ments, their presence is as much 

 required during winter as in sum- 

 mer, and therefore they cannot be 

 placed under shelter during that 

 period. 



Seats are essential objects in 

 all gardens, in those of the most 

 extensive as well as in those 

 of smaller size and of less pre- 

 tensions. 



§ 6. — TEMPLES AND AKBOUKS. 



In architectural gardens and grounds 

 these are also very appropriate, both for 

 the shelter they afford and the opportu- 

 nity they give the owner of displaying 

 both his wealth and taste. These, how- 

 ever, should be strictly architectural, 

 and of the same order with the mansion 

 and principal parts of the grounds. They 

 are, perhaps, too large for the flower- 

 garden, strictly so called, but, for the 

 pleasure-grounds, they are essentially 

 necessary. They should, in general, be 

 placed on elevated ground, if the object 

 mainly is to make them objects seen from 

 a distance. At other times they may be 

 placed at the termination of a long vista, 

 or in a situation from whence may be 

 viewed some interesting object or beau- 

 tiful landscape. 



Such structures become necessary ad- 

 juncts to all large places, as the eye, long 

 wandering over vegetable landscape, is 

 relieved and attracted, and rests with 

 pleasure on a new object. The same 



