Conservatory at the Grange. 10.5 



nomical, and render them more wholesome, nutritious, and 

 palatable ; not only may the peasant population be enabled to 

 cultivate flowers with skill and success, to take an interest in 

 their cultivation, and to improve their taste, and thus multiply 

 their sources of innocent pleasure ; not only may the peasant 

 be enabled by such a series of papers, to teach himself much 

 on botany, vegetable physiology, and insectology, and by 

 watching Nature as she is at work in his flowers, vegetables, 

 and fruit trees, and in the insects that frequent them, raise 

 and purify his thoughts ; but I do hope and believe, that by 

 such a series of papers, a few, at least, may be called forth 

 from the ignorance and obscurity in which they otherwise 

 would have dwelt, and be rendered useful contributors to 

 these branches of sciences. Much still remains to be learnt, 

 which can only or best be learned by those who use their eyes 

 and thoughts while in a garden ; much, especially, respecting 

 the manners, habits, and economy of the various tribes of 

 minute insects which frequent a garden. 



If, therefore, by such a series of papers this branch of natural 

 history is advanced, you will indirectly have done service to 

 science ; but whether this be the result or not, such a series 

 must tend to benefit the peasant population, by increasing 

 at once the sources from which their animal wants and 

 gratifications are supplied, and opening to them, by the 

 cultivation of their minds, new sources of much higher utility 

 and pleasure. I trust, therefore, you will set yourself and your 

 friends to work, and begin the series immediately, 



I am, Yours, &c. 



W. Stevenson. 



3, Beaufort Row, Chelsea. 

 21 st February mm. 



Art. II. Some Account of a Conservatory lately erected at the 

 Grange, the Seat of Alexander Baring, Esq. M.P., Hamp- 

 shire. By Mr. Peter M' Arthur, F.H.S. Gardener there ; 

 with a preliminary notice respecting the Architecture of the 

 Mansion, by an Anonymous Contributor. 



The Grange was the seat of the Lord Chancellor Hyde, 

 and the house is one of the best works of Inigo Jones. The 

 architecture of the interior ; in particular the hall, cor- 

 ridores, and staircase, and the saloon on the first floor, have 

 been celebrated by Walpole and others, as amongst the finest 

 specimens of his taste. The original building consisted of the 

 Italian square villa ; the ground floor containing a suit of low 

 rooms ; iind the first floor being reserved, according to the fa- 

 shions of those days, for the best living apartments, was laid out 



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