Woburn Abbey Gardening

With respect to gardening, Woburn Abbey has never been so celebrated, as for its plantations. The kitchen-garden, though large, has scarcely any hot-houses, and very few pits or frames. One wonders how a duke could live without peaches and grapes, not to say pine-apples, forced strawberries, and kidneybeans; but, doubtless, these articles are procured from London. [A most complete kitchen-garden, and ample ranges of forcing-houses, pits, and frames, have been since formed and erected; and the most complete success has attended their management. See Hortus Woburnensis, by Mr. Forbes, in which engravings are given of the garden and garden structures, and various other objects.]