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

Kitchen gardens

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Kitchen Garden.-The intimate connexion between the kitchen and the garden, for its produce, and between the stables and the garden, for its manure, is so obvious, that every one must see the propriety of bringing them as nearly together as possible, consistent with the views from the house; yet we find in many large parks that the fruit and vegetables are brought from the distance of a mile, or more, with all the care and trouble of packing for much longer carriage; and the park is continually cut up by dung-carts passing from the stables to the distant gardens.