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years ago. The house stands on a small plateau on the side of a hill 

 between Windermere and Ambleside and commands lovely views of 

 Lake Windermere and of the hills beyond. The gardens are not large, 

 but they are laid out with admirable judgment and with complete appre- 

 ciation of the manner in which the beauty of the site chosen could 

 be most adequately developed. They make an entirely appropriate 

 foreground to a singularly charming picture. In Sir William For- 



/ wood's gardens at Bromborough Hall, Cheshire (Plates XX. and 

 XXL), there are noteworthy illustrations of more than one type of 

 design. On the south front of the house is a very well-planned 

 Dutch garden, at the end of which stands a large conservatory ; the 

 flower beds, bordered with dwarf box-edging, are filled with begonias 

 and other bright-hued flowers which make an exquisitely brilliant 

 colour harmony, and they are arranged on a formal plan which has 

 suitable regularity without stiffness. In another part of the grounds 

 is a Japanese garden planted with appropriate shrubs and flowers and 

 furnished with garden ornaments which help much to give distinctive 

 character to the design. This garden is mainly a reproduction of one 

 which was laid out at the Chicago Exhibition. 



i/ Brougham Hall (Plates XXII. and XXIII.) , a picturesque building 

 of much architectural importance, is surrounded with lawns bordered 

 and diversified by beds of flowering plants ; on the western side of 

 the house the lawn forms a terrace which overlooks a wide stretch of 

 country leading in the distance to the hills at the foot of which lies 

 Lake Ullswater a view of remarkable beauty. The chief character- 

 istic of the garden is the profusion of flowers grown in it. The 

 Bungalow, Rivington (Plates XXIV. and XXV.), is a place still in 

 the making, which promises to be, when completed, one of the most 

 remarkable of the northern gardens. The bungalow itself has been 

 built by Mr. W. H. Lever on a hill known as Rivington Pike, from 

 which amazing views are obtained in all directions, and the gardens 

 are being laid out by Mr. Mawson, who is using all the resources of 

 garden-making to accentuate the natural attractions of the site. A 

 notable piece of construction is the terrace upon which are erected 

 stone shelters and from which steps lead to a stone-built pergola and 

 to garden houses commanding a wonderful outlook over the country 

 round. Already a great variety of plants, and of alpine plants par- 

 ticularly, are growing in the garden. The Rivington estate, which 

 is about seven miles from Bolton-le-Moors, includes both the high 

 moorland hills and a large stretch of pasture land in the valley below ; 

 it was bought by Mr. Lever some little while ago. 

 One of the best features of the stately garden at Byram Hall (Plates 

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