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excellent means for taking exercise in bad 

 weather, and also become an interesting 

 promenade at all times. There is no 

 necessity that such a corridor should be 

 carried its whole length in a direct line — 

 it may recede and project according to 



the breaks in the building ; and from the 

 conservatory it may be continued to the 

 stables, or to any other place of usual 

 resort. 



The conservatory at the Grange, of 

 which fig. 497 is an internal view, and 



Fig. 497. 



fig. 498 a cross section, was built from 

 the designs of C. R. Cockerell, Esq., who, 

 at the same time, greatly improved the 

 mansion. It is in the Grecian style, and 



Fig. 498. 



Fig. 499. 



is 70 feet in length by 46 feet in breadth, 

 and 21 feet high. We do not introduce 

 this house as a novelty, but as being one 

 of the best conservatories we have seen. 

 Its proportions are good, its connection 

 with the mansion enjoyable, its details 

 faultless, and, either as a conservatory 

 attached to a mansion, or as standing 

 detached on the lawn, we consider it a 

 model ; — of course we would, in the latter 

 case, substitute glass for the opaque wall 

 that connects it with the mansion. Two 

 beds of prepared soil, each 15^ feet wide, 

 are planted with suitable plants; a walk 



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6 feet 6 inches broad passes down the 

 centre, and one of 4 feet 9 inches passes 

 along the back and front sides. Along 

 the back wall is a border 18 inches broad, 

 in which climbing plants are grown and 

 trained to a wire trellis to cover the back 

 wall. At each pilaster in 

 the front and ends, also, there 

 is a prepared border, in 

 which the choicer kinds 

 of climbing plants are 

 planted and trained up the 

 iron columns (fig. 449) which 

 face the pilasters. A glass 

 door opens into the con- 

 servatory from Lady Ash- 

 burton's private apartments; 

 and the principal entrance, 

 from the spacious terrace 

 without, leads through a 

 vestibule in which large spe- 

 cimen plants in ornamental tubs, boxes, 

 and pots stand. 



In the recesses of the windows, be- 

 tween the pilasters, stands 7 inches high 

 are placed, upon which small plants 

 while in bloom are set. "Under these 

 stands are the ventilators, which admit 

 the heated air and steam together or 

 separately, as may be desired, into the 

 house. The water which falls from the 

 roof is conducted through iron columns, 



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