GARDEN HOUSES 



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FIG. 99. 



door in the " White Fox " room is the Chinese drawing- 

 room (D), smaller than the others, and with a boudoir (E) 

 attached to it. As only light refreshments were served 

 here, and all the chief enter- 

 tainments took place at Ama- 

 lienburg, a small pantry (F) 

 seems to have been sufficient 

 at the Badeburg. 



There are comparatively 

 few places where nowadays 

 such elaborate garden-houses 

 are required, but it is pleasant 

 to recall them, and in imagina- 

 tion to walk along the straight avenues of the little park, 

 and to revive again scenes that took place there long ago. 



SHADOW-HOUSES 



In days when Reynolds's and Gainsborough's ladies 

 were alive, and even before that time, the chief occupation 

 of a lady in the country was the supervision of all 

 connected with the still-room. She made her own 

 preserves and perfumes, she spread rose-leaves in the sun 

 and then stirred them with essences to make potpourri, 

 and she gathered herbs for the kitchen. We can well 

 imagine how useful a garden-room or shadow-house, 

 which is an older name than summer-house, must have 

 been for these occupations. In it she could either 

 rest or carry on her avocations. 



We are, I am glad to say, reviving these bygone 

 interests, and although the need for elaborate garden- 

 rooms may have died out, it is a matter for regret that in 

 the adornment of gardens something more artistic should 

 not be planned than the somewhat sorry-looking objects 

 which we see, the inspiration of modern designers. 



