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of the grass, in which are cut four Rose-beds, curved 

 on the side next the Fountain, and so forming round 

 it a pleasing pattern. A Pillar Sundial is placed 

 beyond the Fountain. All Sundials have a fascina- 

 tion about them, as well as a great decorative value, 

 but Pillar Sundials must ever recall the memory of 

 a brilliant woman who lived long ago, viz., Anne 

 Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Mont- 

 gomery, and who put up the earliest Pillar Sundials 

 on the wayside between Appleby and Brougham 

 in 1556 "for a memorial of Her Last Parting in 

 This Place with Her Good and Pious Mother." 



Against the Yew hedge at the end of the Rosary 

 is a semicircular Stone Seat, to which the dark 

 background of Yew forms an exceptionally good 



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 contrast. 



Sutton Place has only one short avenue of Elms, 

 no longer used as a drive to the House, the 

 approach now being made through some green 

 meadows. It is interesting to note that one is 

 generally sown with clover, for in 1 645 Sir Richard 

 Weston introduced the "Great Clover" into 

 England, so this pretty grass is most appropriately 

 found at Sutton. 



Not one, but many celebrated people must have 

 wandered in the old Gardens at Sutton Place, all 

 more or less linked with the history of the House. 

 For instance, Pope, the poet of satires and intrigues, 

 had a romantic attachment to Elizabeth Weston, 



