268 PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROHNIS. 



if possible, having some advantage of its own, though 

 in an inferior degree. The proper position of a con- 

 servatory or green-house is in connection with the 

 drawing-room, and communicating with it by a glass 

 door; it will thus not only be an object of interest in 

 itself, but it will form an extension of the drawing- 

 room, and will afford an agreeable lounge in wet 

 weather. For this purpose the passage ought to be 

 roomy and unencumbered. In green-houses this con- 

 venience is too often neglected, and the floor is over- 

 crowded with stages and shelves for the reception of 

 plants. A plant-house of easy access, with wide pas- 

 sages, and a smaller number of well-grown plants, 

 may be tenanted by objects highly worthy of admira- 

 tion, and will prove a most pleasant adjunct to a 

 drawing-room. If the conservatory or green-house 

 can not be united to this room, another position may 

 probably be found for it in connection with some of 

 •the other public rooms. A green-house of all work, 

 as it is called — that is, a glazed house for the general 

 protection and propagation of plants — should not be 

 immediately accessible from the mansion, as it can not 

 be kept in sufficient order to warrant such proximity. 

 Its place should be in the kitchen-garden, or on the 

 edge of the flower-garden. 



It will be inferred from what has been stated above, 

 that the entrance-front of the house should, other things 

 being equal, be placed toward that direction which h 

 least favored in point of view, or where there is litt.e 

 or no beauty to lose. "We do not mean that the pr n- 

 cipal door should be thrust into some obscure corner, 

 but that it should occupy a secondary position in rela- 

 tion to the grounds and the public rooms. In that case 



