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vases oil pedestals as accompaniments ; the other, rustic \ 
as they are called, which are formed out of trunks ana 
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 
violence to our feelings and sense of propriety to admit 
many rustic seats and structures of any kind ; but archi- 
tectural decorations and architectural seats are there 
correctly introduced. For the same reason, also, as we 
have already suggested, 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 arti- 
ficial 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 beautiful landscape garden ; while rustic 
baskets, or vases, are the most' fitting decorations of the 
Picturesque Landscape Garden. 
The simplest variety of covered architectural seat is the 
latticed arbor for vines of various descriptions, with the 
seat underneath the canopy of foliage ; this may with 
more propriety be introduced in various parts of the 
grounds than any other of its class, as the luxuriance and 
natural gracefulness of the foliage which covers the arbor, 
in a great measure destroys or overpowers the expression 
of its original form. Lattice arbors, however, neatly 
