CONSERVATORY. 



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it into the gro-und, instead of allowing it to stand on the 

 surface. In either position^ they interrupt that feehng 

 of retirement which is requisite to the full enjoyment of 

 dressed grounds. Servants^ apartments may he formed, 

 mth excellent elFect, into a sort of wing or minor gronp 

 of huildings attached to the main body of the house. 

 Besides these relations to objects immediately conti- 

 guous, the arrangement of the interior of the house 

 should have a reference to the park and the more distant 

 country. The drawing-room should always command 

 the finest views which are to be seen from the windows, 

 whether these occm^ in the adjacent or in the external 

 scenery. The views from the hall door are of minor 

 importance, but they ought not to be overlooked or 

 neglected. The house, when fehcitonsly arranged in 

 these respects, may be said to preside over the beauties 

 of the place. Other considerations, indeed, may be, and 

 often are, taken into account. If warmth rather than 

 beauty is the object aimed at_, the drawing-room front 

 should look towards the south, whatever may be the 

 scenery iu that quarter, and the entrance should be on 

 any of the other sides which may be most sheltered or 

 most convenient. Both the elements of warmth and 

 beauty, however, may sometimes be secured by placing 

 the family rooms towards the south, and the pubhc rooms 

 towards the east or west, with end Avuidows to the south 

 or north, if the finest views happen to be in these 

 directions. 



Conservatory. — Among the various appendages which 

 it is desirable that a mansion-honse should possess, 

 none is more important than the conservatory, which, 

 when happily placed, may be regarded as an extension of 

 the drawing-room, or at least, if it is ru the vicinity of 



