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Rustic Adornments. 
without further preface, begging the reader to imagine all the many agreeable 
things that might be said on the pleasures the conservatory and greenhouse 
afford by the beauty they cherish for us, and the flowery paths they open 
into the boundless fields of knowledge. 
Conservatories are of many kinds. All the world has heard of a great one 
at Chatsworth, of a 
noble one at South 
Kensington, and of 
an ugly one in the 
Royal Botanic Gar¬ 
dens, Regent’s Park. 
The Crystal Palace 
is a conservatory, 
and so is the little 
glass box of ten or 
twelve feet square, 
which hangs like a 
meat-safe on the rear 
wall of many a small 
suburban villa. The 
little conservatories 
we have disposed of 
in the chapters on 
fern-cases, having 
considered them in 
connection with the 
house rather than the 
garden. We are free, 
therefore, to speak 
of the conservatory 
proper, and shall first 
remark upon it, that 
when connected with the house it is of an immensely greater value than 
when separated from it, no matter by how short a distance. Better go 
round about by ways not usually considered proper, as through a kitchen, 
a storeroom, or even a scullery to reach the conservatory, than have no other 
way of access than by a walk in the open air. But we do not advocate 
VERANDAH ENTRANCE TO CONSERVATORY. 
