forecourt; on the southern, the garden. Here, next the house, is a wide 

 terrace, bounded on the outer side by the parapet of a retaining wall, and 

 next the building, by a running guilloche of box-edged beds filled with low- 

 growing plants. The terrace has a semi-circular ending, near the eastern 

 wall of the house, formed of an evergreen hedge, with a wooden seat 

 following the same line, and a sundial at the radial point. At the other 

 end, the terrace ends in a flight of downward steps leading to large green 

 spaces, with fine trees and flowering shrubs, and eventually to the walled 

 gardens. Straight across the terrace from the house is the parterre, 

 whose centre ornament is an unusually well-proportioned fountain of the 

 same date as the house. It is circular in plan, with a wide lower basin 

 and two graduated superimposed tazzas. From this, four cross-paths 

 radiate ; the quarters are filled mainly with half-hardy flowers such as 

 Gladiolus ; the design being accentuated at several points by the upright 

 growing Florence Court Yews. The parterre is inclosed by a low wall, 

 backed by a clipped evergreen hedge; on the wall stand at intervals 

 graceful stone figures oi amorini^ identical in character with those shown 

 in the picture of Phlox and Daisy, and apparently designed by the same 

 hand. 



The steps at the western end of the terrace are wide and handsome, 

 and are also ornamented with sculptured amorini. The path leads 

 onward, at first directly forward, but a little later in a curved line 

 through a region of lawn and stream, with trees and groups of flowering 

 shrubs. Here and there, on the grass by itself, is one of the free- 

 growing Roses, rightly left without any support, and showing the 

 natural fountain-like growth that so well displays the beauty of 

 many of the Roses of the old Ayrshire class and of some of the 

 more modern ramblers. The path passes one end of an avenue of large 

 trees, and, after a while, turning to the left, reaches the kitchen 

 gardens, consisting of several walled inclosures. One of these, of 

 which one wall is occupied by vineries, has been made into a flower 

 garden, where hardy flowers, grandly grown, are in the wide borders 

 next the wall. A portion of such borders, in an adjoining compartment 

 of the garden, forms the subject of the picture. 



The inner space is divided into two squares, one having as a 

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