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caused Sir James Lowther and Andrew Hudleston 

 a few days of great anxiety. But when William at 

 last arrived in England, their prompt action received 

 ample recognition. 



Though Hutton John possesses an ample share 

 of beauty of its own, it must ever gain a reflected 

 glory from being near the homes of so many great 

 men. Wordsworth has immortalised the surround- 

 ing country in his verse. Southey, Coleridge, and 

 De Quincey lived amongst its glories, while Gray, 

 always somewhat coldly severe towards most 

 beauties of Nature, seems to have appreciated the 

 exquisite pearl-like shades in the light and shadow 

 of the country near Hutton John. He alludes 

 thus to the old place : " Farther on appears 

 Hatton St. John, a castle-like old mansion of 

 Mr. Huddleston " but not a word of the Garden, 

 with its distinctive feature, the old Yews on the 

 Terrace, which are shown in their full beauty in 

 the water-colour drawing of Hutton John. 



Though " comparisons are odious," it is interest- 

 ing to compare old Gardens with new, the 

 comparison generally resulting in the conviction 

 that modern Gardens lack style, both in design 

 and effect. The rage for flower growing has 

 produced glorious specimens, but in many cases 

 has banished any real arrangement or plan of 

 design, without which no Garden can possess any 

 true repose or charm. In old Gardens there was a 



