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A GARDEN SEAT.
PLATE XIX.
'A GARDEN SEAT.
T I1 S design would furnish an elegant appendage to
flower-gardens, as its parts are composed for the purpose of
training foliage in a light and playful manner: the construction
is very simple, consisting of oak-pillars and iron-rods to form
the arcades and trellisses. The basket-like ornaments on the
pillars may be formed either of light-iron or wicker-work into
which creepers could be trained, so as to fill them with a rich
assemblage of natural and living flowers; or vines could be
substituted and so conducted as to appear to fill the baskets with
their produce. An arcade of this kind, being of considerable
length, would have a good effect either in a straight line bor-
dering a parterre, or in compassing a circular or polygonal arena
of grass-plats and beds of flowers.
As a garden seat, perhaps the design could be improved by
adding to it a light trellis roof, sloping from the straight con-
necting rods above the arches, down to the wall or back of the
recess; this roof might be covered by foliages, thus affording
protection from the sun.
In flower-gardens, it is usual to have an ornamental conserv-
atory, and if it be so placed as to permit this kind of erection
on each side of it, forming ornamental approaches on its right
and left, a beautiful perspective continuity would result when
viewed through its length, and the front view would also be
improved by it. The expense of this addition is compara-
tively small, but the effect produced would be both striking and
agreeable.
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