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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
views of the surrounding country, a seat, by designating 
those points, and by affording us a convenient mode of enjoy- 
ing them, has a double recommendation to our minds. 
Open and covered seats are of two distinct kinds ; one 
architectural , or formed after artist-like designs, of stone or 
wood, in Grecian, Gothic, or other forms ; which may, if they 
are intended to produce an elegant effect, have vases on 
pedestals as accompaniments ; the other, rustic , as they are 
called, which are formed out of trunks and branches of trees, 
roots, etc., in their natural forms. 
There are particular sites, where each of these kinds of 
seats, or structures, is, in good taste, alone admissible. In 
the proximity of elegant and decorated buildings where all 
around has a polished air, it would evidently be doing vio- 
lence to our feelings and sense of propriety to admit many 
rustic seats and structures of any kind ; but architectural de- 
corations and architectural seats are there correctly intro- 
duced. For the same reason also, as we have already sug- 
gested, that the sculptured forms of vases, etc., would be out 
of keeping in scenes where nature is predominant, (as the 
distant wooded parts, or walks of a residence,) architectural, 
or in other words, highly artificial seats, would not be in 
character : but rustic seats and structures, which, from the 
nature of the materials employed and the simple manner of 
their construction, appear but one remove from natural forms, 
are felt at once to be in unison with the surrounding objects. 
Again, the mural, and highly artistical vase, and statue, 
most properly accompany the landscape garden in the 
graceful school ; while rustic basket, or vase, are the most 
fitting decorations of the Picturesque Landscape Garden. 
The simplest variety of covered architectural seat is the 
latticed arbour for vines of various description, with the seat 
underneath the canopy of foliage : this may with more pro- 
