Changes near the House.-In the middle of the last century, almost every mansion in the kingdom had 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 gardens; 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 implicitly 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, surrounding it with a shrubbery; and, indeed, such an arrangement is the most natural and commodious.
