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AN ORNAMENTAL CAST-IRON GARDEN-CHAIR. 
The accompanying" design of an ornamental g-arden chair was communicated 
some time back by our worthy correspondent, Mr. Saul, of Lancaster, who it will 
be recollected, designed and communicated the flower-stand figured at page 30 of 
the present volume of the Magazine of Botany. The chair represented in the 
woodcut below is made of cast-iron, and the whole is so contrived, that the back, 
seat, feet, &c., may be detached at pleasure, and conveniently packed in a box, and 
transferred to any part of the country at a moderate cost. When complete, as 
shown in the drawing, it forms an agreeable object, and if painted so as to agree 
with the natural objects surrounding- the situation where it is intended to stand, it 
will have a very pleasing effect, and will not, as is the case with chairs of this 
description made of wood, be liable to become unsightly by rot, &c., but may after 
a long series of years be repainted and brought to reassume its former clean and 
respectable appearance, with the least trouble, and if needed less expense. We 
have frequently noticed the root part of 
oak, ash, and other trees cut level on the 
top, so as to admit of being sat upon, 
and ornamental chairs and stools made 
of wood and well painted occupying the 
recesses in retired parts of the pleasure- 
ground, &c., where the drip of trees 
and constant humidity of the atmos- 
phere in such situations have not only 
in time rotted the latter, and clothed the 
former in loathsome and unsightly 
fungi^ but both have been at times for 
want of repair, &c., rendered unfit for 
use. In such situations we think Mr. 
Saul's ornamental cast-iron chair pre- 
ferable to wood, as it will at all times 
and seasons be found in good order, and 
if painted once in two or three years 
always neat and tidy. To private re- 
treats in the more immediate neighbour- 
hood of the mansion, where chairs are in 
constant use Mr. S.'s chair is well 
adapted. As an ornament it is agree- 
able and pleasing, and answering the 
accommodation of a chair, besides pos- 
sessing the advantages of durability, it recommends itself to almost any situation 
in the pleasure-grounds or flower garden. 
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