Chapter XII 



Architecture and Gardening inseparable — Forms 

 and Arrangements of Different Eras — Change in 

 Customs alters Uses of Rooms 



IT has been objected to my predecessor, Mr. Brown, 

 that he fancied himself an architect. The many 

 good houses built under his direction prove him to 

 have been no mean proficient in an art, the practice 

 of which he found, from experience, to be inseparable 

 from landscape gardening. He had not early studied 

 those necessary but inferior branches of architecture, 

 better known, perhaps, to the practical carpenter 

 than to Paliadio himself, yet, from his access to the 

 principal palaces of this country, and his intercourse 

 with men of genius and science, added to his natural 

 quickness of perception and his habitual correctness 

 of observation, he became acquainted with the higher 

 requisites of the art relating to form, to proportion, 

 to character, and, above all, to arrangement.''" 



These branches of architecture are attainable without 

 much early practice, as we have seen exemplified in the 

 designs of certain noblemen, who, like Lord Burling- 

 ton, had given their attention to this study. A know- 

 ledge of arrangement or disposition is, of all others, 

 the most useful ; and this must extend to external 

 appendages as well as to internal accommodation. 



This knowledge cannot be acquired without ob- 

 serving and comparing various houses under various 

 circumstances ; not occasionally only, but the architect 



