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PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



The drawing-room will occupy the best position^ followed 

 by the parlour, dining-room, and library in succession^ 

 each, if possible, having some advantage of its own, 

 though in an inferior degree. The proper position of a 

 conservatory or greenhouse 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 passages ought to be roomy and unen- 

 cumbered. In greenhouses this convenience 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 passages, and a smaller number of 

 well-grown plants, may be tenanted by objects highly 

 worthy of admiration, and will prove a most pleasant 

 adjunct to a drawing-room. If the conservatory or 

 greenhouse cannot be united to this room, another posi- 

 tion may probably be found for it in connection with 

 some of the other public rooms. A greenhouse of all work, 

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

 protection and propagation of plants, — should not be im- 

 mediately accessible from the mansion, as it cannot 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 towards that direction which is least 

 favoured in point of view, or where there is little or no 

 beauty to lose. We do not meail that the principal door 

 should be thrust into some obscure corner, but that it 

 should occupy a secondary position in relation to the 



