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as these things are never well designed, and only 

 serve to draw attention to what is already sufficiently 

 unsightly. If it is already there, and cannot be 

 screened by plantation or any other device, the best 

 thing is to paint it some quiet colour such as what 

 painters call Portland-stone colour, made of brown and 

 black mixed with white-lead. 



If I were designing a large range of glass 

 houses and could " have my head," I would lay it 

 out as a walled enclosure of say half an acre. 

 From outside, nothing would be seen but the high 

 wall or some suitable treatment of it. The houses 

 for show would range all round inside for a width 

 of some twenty-five feet ; the inner space would be 

 for the growing or service houses. The southern 

 side of the glass-garden wall would be in connection 

 with the pleasure garden, and if the wish of the 

 owner was for a good piece of formal gardening, 

 the wall might well be treated as the back of a 

 cloistered loggia. On the northern face of the 

 enclosure outside would be the potting shed, 

 furnaces, &c. One would enter through the 

 middle of the cloistered wall into a space where 

 in winter would be placed the tubs of Orange, 

 Myrtle, Oleander, and white Datura that would 

 stand out of doors in summer. In shape and 

 area this might be a double square of fifty by 

 twenty-five feet. Opposite the entrance would be 



