268 PARKS AND PLEASUEE-GEOUNDS. 



if possible, having some advantage of its own, though 

 in an inferior degree. The proper position of a con- 

 servatory or green-house is in connection with the 

 drawing-room, and commnnicating with it bj a glass 

 door; it will thus not only be an object of interest in 

 itself, but it will form an extension of the drawing- 

 room, and wull afford an agreeable lounge in wet 

 W'Cather. For this purpose the passage ought to be 

 roomy and unencumbered. In green-houses this con- 

 venience is too often neglected, and the floor is over- 

 crowded with stages and shelves for the reception of 

 2:)lants. A plant-house of easy access, with wide pas- 

 sages, and a smaller number of well-grown plants, 

 may be tenanted by objects highly worthy of admira- 

 tion, and will prove a most pleasant adjunct to a 

 drawing-room. If the conservatory or green-house 

 can not be united to this room, another position may 

 probably be found for it in connection Avith some of 

 the other public rooms. A green-house of all work, 

 as it is called — that is, a glazed house for the general 

 protection and propagation of plants — should not be 

 immediately accessible from the mansion, as it can not 

 be kept in sufficient order to warrant such proximity. 

 Its place should be in the kitchen-garden, or on the 

 edge of the flower-garden. 



It will be inferred from what has been stated above, 

 that the entrance-front of the house should, other things 

 being equal, be placed toward that direction which is 

 least favored in point of view, or where there is litt.e 

 or no beauty to lose. We do not mean that the pr n- 

 cipal door should be thrust into some obscure corner, 

 but that it should occupy a secondary position in rela- 

 tion to the grounds and the public rooms. In that case 



