2o6 The Art of Landscape Gardening 



Another circumstance may be mentioned, in which 

 economy has been consulted at this small villa. More 

 rooms are generally required on the chamber than on 

 the ground floor; yet, except the kitchen, there is no 

 part of a house which ought properly to be so lofty as 

 the principal rooms ; instead, therefore, of increasing the 

 quantity of offices, by what a witty author calls "turn- 

 ing the kitchen out of doors for smelling of victuals," 

 this offence is here avoided by the external passage of 

 communication. 



The operations of landscape gardening have often 

 been classed under the general term of improvement; 

 but there are three distinct species. The first relates 

 to places where the grounds are altered, and adapted to 

 a house already existing ; the second to those where the 

 houses, by additions, having changed their original 

 character or aspect, renders it necessary to make alter- 

 ations in the ground also ; the third includes those places 

 where no house previously exists, and where the entire 

 plan of the house, appendages, and grounds has some- 

 times been called a creation. Of the first kind it is 

 needless to enumerate examples. Among the second 

 may be mentioned those in which the entrance of the 

 house being changed, new rooms added, or barns, sta- 

 bles, and kitchen-gardens removed, new arrangements 

 have taken place, as at Abington Hall, Clayberry, 

 Wallhall, West-Coker, Betchworth, Highlands, 

 Brandsbury, Holwood, etc. Of those places which 

 may be called creations, the number is necessarily 

 small, yet I may refer to the following examples. In 

 some, where new houses were built, I was consulted by 

 the respective architects on the situation and append- 

 ages ; as at Bracondale, Milton House, Donnington, 

 Buckminster, Courteen Hall, Bank Farm, Chilton 



