106 Old Time Gardens 



Rose Garden, a Water Garden ; a bit of the latter is 

 on page 75. In some portions of these gardens, 

 especially on the upper terrace, the Box is so high, 

 and set in such quaint and rambling figures, that it 

 closely approaches an old English maze; and it was 

 a pretty sight to behold a group of happy little 

 children running in and out among these Box hedges 

 that extended high over their heads, searching long 

 and eagerly for the central bower where their little 

 tea party was set. 



Over these old garden borders hangs literally an 

 atmosphere of the past ; the bitter perfume stimu- 

 lates the imagination as we walk by the side of 

 these splendid Box bushes, and think, as every one 

 must, of what they have seen, of what they know ; 

 on this garden is written the history of over two 

 centuries of beautiful domestic home life. It is well 

 that we still have such memorials to teach us the 

 nobility and beauty of such a life. 



