Spring Grove, Wliitmore Lodge. 565 



Out-house. Knife-cleaning machine. Wheel-brush for brushing shoes, 

 and the common description of clothes. 



China closet. Very complete collection ; the walls covered with paper, in 

 imitation of Dutch tiles. Here we have forgot something we intended to 

 notice. 



Entrance-hall and garden-front saloon. Sunk panels in the floor, for the 

 large mats, 6 ft. square, to allow of the doors opening over them. A raised 

 bed for flowers in the centre of the garden saloon, with stone curb. A large 

 recess in the wall, enclosed with brass wire, serves as an aviary for canary 

 birds ; the birds pass through small unconspicuous openings on one side of 

 the recess to their eating and drinking place, so that no husks of seeds are 

 ever seen from the saloon. Shutters double, and curiously contrived both 

 for warmth and security. In the flower-bed is now a collection of hand- 

 some balsams, the pots covered with green moss. 



Mr. Mangle's dressmg-room and business-room. Clothes-press admirably 

 arranged; the drawers containing the different parts of dress, named and 

 numbered. Complete system of housekeeping books ; letters and copying 

 machine ; engraved forms of bankers' checks ; with the family arras, view 

 of the house, &c. 



BreaJifast-7-oom. The walls covered with brown moreen, bordered by 

 gimp, with cable cord in the angles. Egyptian fire-irons, ornaments, tables, 

 &c., from the late sale at White Knights, of the Duke of Marlborough's 

 rarities. Frames to mirror, doors, &c. of bird's eye maple, and correspond- 

 ing patterns. 



Dining-room. Slips of lead, three-sided, and covered with oil cloth, laid 

 along the skirting on the carpet, to prevent the chairs from being pushed 

 too near to the wall. Contrivance for receiving the dinner hot, direct from 

 the kitchen, as at Arundel Castle, and said to be also at Dreghorn Castle, 

 near Edinburgh. Large bay window for the dessert table during the summer 

 season. 



Drawing-room. The whole of the light admitted from a bay of three 

 large windows. Bird-cage, with an under-story, in which the bird descends 

 through a small opening, by a trap-ladder, to its eating-place, so that no 

 husks of seeds are ever exposed to view. Flower-stand, in which cut 

 flowers are kept in moist sand. Set of musicians in Dresden china, nume- 

 rous other articles of virtu, &c. &c. 



Staircase, ^-c, heated by a Brussels stove, which is of iron, cased inside 

 with fire-stone, very handsome and effective. 



Bed-rooms. Three sorts of blinds are in use ; the best kind seems to be 

 that in which the cloth is rolled up by pulling a string which coils up and 

 unrolls in a groove on the end of the roller. The end of the string hangs 

 loose. 



What is particularly deserving of imitation in this house is the admission 

 of light into all the rooms, not by rows of windows, but by bays or large 

 windows without any cross lights, so that the light always comes in masses, 

 and thus sets off" all forms to advantage. There is not a room in the house 

 with two windows, nor a door with a display of locks, knobs, handles, and 

 other fastenings, as if, in a house of enjoyment, the security of person or 

 property were a matter of constant consideration. The ■view of the plea- 

 sure-ground from the dining-room displays a plain lawn, ornamented with 

 shrubs and trees, but without flowers; that from the breakfast-room the 

 same view, but introducing an inviting portion of extreme distance; that 

 from the drawing-room, a lawn highly enriched with baskets of flowers of 

 different shapes, grouped so as to exhibit handsome combinations ; a large 

 one {Jig. 112.) being directly in front, two irregular ones at each side along 

 the walk, and a smaller regidar one ( /?g. 113.) placed beyond the first at 

 some little distance. The bordering of these figures is of cast-iron basket- 

 work, and the flowers this season are as follows : — 



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