The luxury of a winter garden has of late been, in some degree, supplied by adding large conservatories to the apartments of a house; but this is not, in all cases, practicable, nor in some advisable; yet, in most situations, it is possible to obtain a covered line of connexion with the green-house, and other appendages of a winter garden, at a little distance from the house*.
*[The covered walk and corridor at Woburn Abbey is the most extensive of the kind in this country. It is a shelter from rain at all seasons, and furnishes a line of connexion with the conservatory, flower-house, tennis-court, stables, riding-house, &c. But this is not covered with glass. Among those on a small scale, I may mention the flower passage at Mr. Manning's villa, at Totteridge; the corridor at Earl Sefton's, at Stoke Farm; and the winter walk at the Hon. J. B. Simpson's, at Babworth, Nottinghamshire: all which add great comfort to the interior, while they contribute, by their exterior, to ornament the garden scenery.] If, by the various expedients suggested, I have succeeded in lengthening the summers, by shortening the walks; or if I have increased the comforts or pleasures of a garden, by diminishing what is too often miscalled the pleasure garden, I shall not have exercised my profession in vain; since I hope it will tend to curtail the waste of many thousand acres which may be more profitably employed.
