CHAP. X.] 
SEATS. 
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The seats in a garden or pleasure-ground 
are generally purchased ready made; but an 
agreeable variety may be occasionally pro¬ 
duced, by having the stump of an old tree 
formed into a seat, and twining ivy, and creep¬ 
ing flowering shrubs, round it. Where it is 
an object to save trouble, a plant of the Vir¬ 
ginian creeper may be planted with one of 
the giant ivy; and if both are left to nature, 
the effect will be very good, as the brilliant 
deep red of the Virginian creeper in autumn 
will be relieved by the dark green of the ivy. 
A few moveable seats—one to wheel about 
from one part of the garden to another, and 
another of the new folding kind, imported 
from Norway by Charlwood, and sold at 
3s. 6d. each, are very convenient. Where 
there is a terrace, a seat may be erected at 
each end of wood, but of a somewhat massive 
design, and painted white, being strewed 
while the paint is wet with very fine sand, 
which will make it a good imitation of stone. 
Seats may also be decorated by nailing on a 
wooden frame-work hazel rods with the bark 
on, which have been stained of different 
colours, and then varnished. These rods are 
