descending steps, has a broad walk running the whole length, with an 

 excellently modelled lead statue at each end ; to the west an Apollo, a 

 singularly graceful figure, and to the east a female statue, possibly a 

 Diana. The space in front of the house is divided into three portions ; 

 the two outer compartments having hedges of yew from four to five feet 

 high. One of these incloses a bowling-green, the other a lawn with 

 some beds. The middle turfed space has a sundial and beds of flowers. 

 Here is also the remaining one or what was formerly a pair of fine 

 cedars, placed symmetrically to right and left. Adjoining the house 

 and next to the end ot the broad walk where stands the Apollo, is the 

 rose-garden, which, with this graceful statue, forms the subject of the 

 picture. The rose-garden is of beds cut in the grass, containing not Roses 

 only but also other bright garden flowers. A female statue of more 

 modern work stands in the centre. 



The great terrace wall, eighteen feet high, that rorms the retaining 

 wall of the upper portion of the garden, rises towards both ends to its 

 full height as a wall, but the middle space is lightened by being treated 

 with a handsome balustrade. At the extreme ends flights of steps lead 

 down to the next, the middle level. The first long flight reaches a wide 

 stone landing, the lower, shorter flight turning inwards at a right angle. 

 Great buttresses, projecting forward eight feet at the ground-line, add 

 much to the dignity and beauty of the wall. They are roofed with 

 stone, and each one carries the bust of a Roman emperor. From the 

 steps on each side come broad gravelled walks, leading by one step down 

 to a slightly sunk rectangular lawn, which occupies the middle space. 

 On each side of the paths are groups of flower-beds on a long axial line 

 that is parallel with the wall. They have a broad turf verge and a 

 nearly equal space of gravel next to their box-edges. Piers and other 

 important points have stone balls or flower-vases. Stone seats stand upon 

 the landings above the lowest flights ot steps, against the walls which 

 bound the garden to right and left. Beyond these boundaries are tall 

 trees, their protecting masses giving exactly that comforting screen that 

 the eye and mind desire, and forming the best possible background to the 

 structure and garnishing of the beautiful garden. 



It is one of the best and most satisfying gardens in the British Isles ; 

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