Separate Establishment.-One of the greatest errors in modern gardening has been that of placing a large house, not only on a naked lawn, but in the centre of it: to accomplish this, in some places towns have been removed, and villages destroyed, that the modern park might surround it in every direction. There are many comforts and agremens which, 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 is 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 *.
*[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.]
