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One of the greatest errors in JModern Separate 



, . Establish- 



Gardening has been that of placing a ment. 

 large house, not only on a naked lawn, 

 but in the centre of it: to accomplish 

 this, in some places towns have been re- 

 moved, and villages destroyed, that the 

 modern park might surround it in every 

 direction. There are many comforts and 

 agremens, Avhich by this practice must 

 be banished to an inconvenient distance, 

 such as the gardens, the pheasantry or 

 menageries, the dairy farm, paddocks, &c. 

 and where, as at Longleat, each of these 

 are on a very large scale, they become so 

 many separate detached establishments: 

 and provided the lines of communication 

 be well managed, they become so many 

 separate objects of interest in the place/ 



The dairy farm is as much a part of Dairy Far™ 



•^ ^ ^ Buildings. 



the place as the deer park, and in many 

 respects more picturesque; consisting of 

 such varied and pleasing inclosures, and 



^ Here the distant kitchen garden is connected with 

 the house by a pleasure ground so perfect in its kind, 

 that it only requires to be brought in closer contact with 

 the house, 



