“I then went down to the kitchen garden, scaled the outside wall and saw the whole of the place, set the men to work there at six o’clock; then returned to Chatsworth, and got Thomas Weldon to play me the waterworks, and afterwards went to breakfast with poor dear Mrs Gregory* and her niece: the latter fell in love with me, and I with her, and thus completed my first morning’s work at Chatsworth before nine o’clock.”

He married Miss Sarah Bown in 1827.* In a very short time a great change appeared in pleasure-ground and garden: vegetables of which there had been none, fruit in perfection, and flowers. Twelve men with brooms in their hands on the lawn began to sweep, the labourers to work with activity. The kitchen garden was so low and exposed to floods from the river, that I supposed the first wish of the new gardener would be to remove it to some other place, but he made it answer. In 1829 the management of the woods was entrusted to him, and gradually they were rescued from a prospect of destruction.