GARDEN CHAIRS AND SEATS. 



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Fig. 311. 



anything more useful in its way. Large specimen plants 

 are quickly and easily moved by this means. The pot or 

 tub is caught by the little iron feet^ then thrown on its 

 side and tied firmly if a long distance has to be traversed. 



Tubs for Orange Trees^ &c. 

 — Oranges, Oleanders,, &c., are 

 so much grown on the Continent 

 that good kinds of tubs are of 

 high importance. There can be 

 little doubt that the square tubs 

 now employed in the public gar- 

 dens of Paris are the best and 

 most durable. I mean those with 

 the hollow cast-iron frame and 

 bottom, and wooden sides. In ^""^ O'-'^^^'^ 

 their case renewing the sides from time to time is not a 

 matter of much expense. The tub here figured is a well-made 

 wooden one, with a wide ornamental margin of metal. The 

 efifect with good specimens is superior to that of the square 

 ones in common use, but it is very expensive. 



Garden Chairs and Seats. — The kind of chair shown 

 in Fig. 312 is seen in quantities in all public places in Paris. 



It has a convex seat made of flexible strips 

 of metal springing from the sides and 

 joined together in a little central piece. 

 These chairs stand any weather, and are 

 nevertheless as elastic as a drawing-room 

 one. A very neat, elegant, and com- 

 fortable conservatory, pleasure-ground, 

 or summer-house chair is composed of 

 three of these seats united in one, the 

 larger framework of the back and sides 

 being made of rustic iron about as thick as 

 the thumb, the smaller spray being tied to the larger by imi- 

 tation osier twigs. This is made by M. Carre, the maker of 

 the greater number of chairs in this way. 



There are many modifications of this kind of chair. One 

 on much the same principle, but with the elastic bands cross- 

 ing from side to side instead of all ending in the centre, is made 



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Fig. 312. 



