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the rustic work does not offend as much as its rusticity pleases. Seats 
made of hewn stone, after the style one sees in Alma Tadema's pictures 
of Roman country life, are, no doubt, very beautiful, especially after they 
have put on garments of lichen and moss, and they may be entirely suited 
to a Roman climate, and partly so, as adjuncts to a grand old palatial 
building ; but for the ordinary English garden and climate they are very 
chilly and chilling to sit on, and are almost too grand for general use. 
Then there are terrible things made to resemble gigantic toadstools — 
from which abominations the Fates defend us in any garden that we love. 
Fig. 175. 
On the whole we think we prefer the old-fashioned, though formal, settle 
of Queen Anne's time, of which figs. 174 and 175 are very good examples. 
But what colour should they be painted ? We have no doubt they were 
white in the good Queen's days, but we confess towards a hankering after 
duck's-egg green or Seakale-leaf green, which is a capital colour for 
verandahs and all garden wood-work. They should, however, be painted 
a shade darker than a Seakale leaf, as green always fades a little. 
THE GLASTONBURY PEAR. 
Synonyms : — ' The Doctor,' ' Edgarley Foundling,' ' Benedictine,' 
' Beurre d'Avalon,' ' Porch's Beurre,' ' Burgess's Pear.' 
At various times and by various authorities it has been identified with 
' Beurre du Roi,' ' Brown Beurre,' ' Esperine,' ' Coalpit Heath Pear,' 
' Beurre Hardy.' 
In the earliest record we can trace the Pear was locally called ' The 
Doctor,' and was by one of its earliest known cultivators considered 
synonymous with the French ' Beurre du Roi.' 
November 16, 1865. — Dr. Hogg received it from Mr. Porch, of Edgarley, 
who thought " the tree must be a wild one, as it is of great age and is 
growing in a hedge surrounded by Elms," and Dr. Hogg, imagining 
that it grew at Edgarley, described it under the name of ' Edgarley 
Foundling.' 
February 1871. — Mr. Sampson, of Yeovil, speaks of a new Pear, 
' Benedictine,' " raised by Wm. Lovell, Esq., of Glastonbury, from 
