There is one very material objection to a green-house immediately attached to a room constantly inhabited, viz. that the smell and damp from a large body of earth in the beds, or pots, is often more powerful than the fragrance of the plants; therefore the conservatory should always be separated from the house, by a lobby, or small anti-room. But the greatest objection arises from its want of conformity to the neighbouring mansion, since it is difficult to make the glass roof of a conservatory architectural, whether Grecian or Gothic. An arcade is ill adapted to the purpose, because, by the form of an arch, the light is excluded at the top, where it is most essential in a green-house; for this reason, the flat Gothic arch of Henry the Eighth is less objectionable, yet in such buildings we must suppose the roof to have been taken away to make room for glass; of this kind is the conservatory in front of RENDLESHAM HOUSE.
