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Book: An inquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening, 1806
Chapter: Part I. Historical Notices.

Dairy farm buildings

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Dairy-farm Buildings.-The dairy-farm is as much a part of the place as the deer park, and, in many respects, more picturesque; consisting of such varied and pleasing inclosures, and so enriched by groups of trees, that it would not be improved by the removal of any hedges: its character is strictly preserved by the style of the buildings; an old farmhouse, a labourer's cottage, a hay-stack, or a thatched hovel, are far more appropriate than the pseudo Gothic dairy, or the French painted trellis in a useful dairy-farm; but, in a park, something more is expected.