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Bramshill ; or of the " Wallflowers, which are 

 very delightful to be set under a parlour or 

 lower chamber window. Then Pinks and Gilli- 

 flowers, especially the matted Pink and clove 

 Gilliflower. . . . Then the Honeysuckles, so 

 they be somewhat afar off." Another flower 

 is planted with no sparing hand round Brams- 

 hill ; for in the days of its building no house 

 was deemed secure from wandering spirits on 

 St. John's Eve, unless the golden flowers, shining 

 leaves, and crimson shoots of the Great St. 

 John's root (Hypericum calycinwri) were found 

 close by. 



From the low arched doorway of the east 

 front, the only bit of the ancient fourteenth- 

 century manor house that remains visible, a 

 broad straight walk leads through a gateway 

 covered with Roses and the handsome double 

 pink flowering Bramble, into a delicious plea- 

 saunce ; and so, between its lawns to another 

 graceful wrought-iron gate in a stone and brick 

 gateway, opening into the park close to the 

 Lime avenue and the cricket ground. 



But if Summer is enchanting at Bramshill 

 when the Lime avenue is in flower, and the 



