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House & Garden 
Hk* ARCADIA Dos 
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for her first dainty dinner party that she is 
most grateful for the discrimination shown 
in the choice of 
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FRANCE 
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INCORPORATED 
New York 
Canadian Office: Toronto 
The end, of a paved path has been marked by 
a recess in the garden wall, across which a 
plank or slab is fixed to form an effective seat 
GARDEN SEATS 
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with a niche or recessed space. Once 
placed in such a situation they should 
be given some sort of background. 
Whether this background is a wall, 
hedge or lattice it should serve to set 
off the seat to the best advantage both 
in the matters of line and color. It 
must be remembered that to be effective 
from a distance there should be a cer¬ 
tain amount of contrast in color be¬ 
tween the seat and its background. 
Nothing could be more stunning, for 
example, than the sight of a beauti¬ 
fully designed white seat in stone or 
wood set against the glossy green of a 
hemlock hedge. 
It will be found that seats in various 
parts of the garden are not equally de¬ 
lightful at all hours of the day. When 
the view from a particular seat is es¬ 
pecially fine during certain hours a 
shelter might be arranged which will 
make those hours completely comfort¬ 
able. Where seats face away from the 
sun during their best hours a tall back¬ 
ground hedge or lattice is generally suf¬ 
ficient to give them shade. Where they 
face toward the sun, on the other hand, 
they will need an overhanging shelter 
of some kind—an arbor, beach-um¬ 
brella or small wide-branching tree. 
It must not be supposed, by the way, 
that seats which face the sun in the 
garden are less desirable than those 
which have the sun at their backs. If 
the sitter is protected from the direct 
glare, the garden, filtered through with 
sunlight, will lie amazingly brilliant 
before him while from the opposite side 
of the garden the whole effect will be 
different. Where the first glimpse was 
an effective bit of hazy impressionism, 
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the latter, with every plant standing 
out clearly in full sunlight, will be 
beautifully realistic. 
These two aspects suggest only 
faintly the great variety of effects of 
which a garden is capable. But some¬ 
how these effects are seldom fully 
noticed or completely appreciated until 
they are seen from a comfortable and 
well placed seat. The comfort of the 
seat itself and its position in the scheme 
of the garden have been considered; 
the question of shelter remains. 
In this article it is proposed to dis¬ 
cuss only those shelters which are in¬ 
cidental to the seat. 'Pergolas and 
arbors—all garden houses, in fact, 
rightly assume a greater importance 
than seats, and are a subject to them¬ 
selves. The smaller types of shelters 
consist usually of a post and lattice 
framework in which the seat is placed. 
These may be arched over, as in the 
example shown at the top of page 45, 
or the upright sections may be joined 
by slender crossbeams in pergola- 
fashion. Depending upon their position 
in the garden these shelters are built 
either with seats at the sides or with a 
seat across the back. When the seats 
are placed at an entrance to the gar¬ 
den their shelter becomes a passageway, 
and the distance between the facing 
seats must be determined by the width 
of the path. When the seat-shelter is 
placed at the end of a path the seat, 
against its lattice background, faces the 
path by which it is approached. 
Shelters of this kind, with seats built 
into them, can be constructed by a 
carpenter from photographs, or they 
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This garden bench is not, only trim in its simple, direct lines, but 
its slatted and slightly sloped seat makes it unusually comfortable 
