But there is the original of a greater work, which has made the wonder of the age.

It is the original of the Great Crystal Palace of 1851, and the mother of all the palaces of the same structure which have been or will be erected in time past or to come.

Here it diadems at Chatsworth the choice plants and flowers of all the tropics; presenting a model which needed only expansion, and some modifications, to furnish the reproduction that delighted the world in Hyde Park in 1851.
I was pleasantly impressed with one feature of the economy that ruled at Chatsworth.

Although there were between one and two thousand deer flecking the park, it was utilised to the pasture of humbler and more useful animals.

Over one hundred poor people's cows were feeding demurely over its vast extent, even to the gilded gates of the palace.