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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts
(1816)
Fragment XXIX. Concerning the luxuries of a garden, pp. [177]-183
Page [177]
FRAGMENT XXIX. CONCERNING THE LUXURIES OF A GARDEN. THE Fruit or Kitchen Garden, as it is generally cultivated, is little better than a ploughed field, where crops are sown in drills; for this reason, it has frequently by Brown, and always by his followers, been banished to a distance, where it might no longer be an unsightly object. I have occasionally found Gardens so placed, at two miles from the house, and conse- quently the choice fruits are removed with as much care and trouble in the package and conveyance, as if they came from Brentford to Covent Garden market.* What I have to insert in this fragment is not the result of any single report, but is col- lected from various hints, thrown out at different places, for the rational improvement of a useful Garden, shewing how it may be rendered ornamental; for though I have elsewhere asserted, that a Ferme Orne' is a solecism in language, yet a Jardin Orne' may be made one of the most interesting luxuries of a cotintry residence: and this may be effected in various ways; the most * I have noticed this error in the extract from the Report of Woburn Abbey. A
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