from contrast^ and even from n(welty,\\'i\.\\- 

 out endangering the character of great- 

 ness. 



In the middle of the last century al- Changes 



near the 



most every mansion in the kingdom had House. 

 its kitchen and fruit gardens surrounded 

 by walls in the front of the house. To 

 improve the landscape from the windows 

 Brown was obliged to remove these gar- 

 dens; and not always being able to place 

 them near the house, they were sometimes 

 removed to a distance. This inconvenient 

 part of his system has been most impli- 

 citly copied by his followers; although I 

 observe that at Croome, and some other 

 places, where he found it practicable, he 

 attached the kitchen garden to the offices 

 and stables, &c. behind the mansion, sur- 

 rounding it with a shrubbery; and indeed 

 such an arrangement is the most natural 

 and commodious. 



The intimate connexion between the Kitchen 

 kitchen and the garden for its produce, 

 and between the stables and the jrarden 

 for its manure, is so obvious, that every 



