soil is shown by the well-being of the White Lily and Phlox, Sweet 

 Williams and double Scarlet Potentilla. Carnations are largely grown in 

 the borders ; the great Orange Lily (L. croceum) has just given place to the 

 White ; Canterbury Bells are in grand masses, and the sturdier plants are 

 interspersed with graceful fragilities, such as the long-spurred yellow 

 Californian Columbine. 



To the left of the alcove an archway cut in the yew hedge leads to 

 the bowling-green. This also is inclosed and sheltered by yew hedges. 

 There is a terrace all round, from which it is pleasant to watch the game. 

 Next to this, and following along the line of the yew hedge, is a square 

 inclosure of turf, with a few clipped yews. This is a kind of ante-room 

 to the rose-garden. High walls of yew are all around except to this 

 garden, where they are low and shaped. The middle space of the rose- 

 garden has beds concentrically arranged, leaving spandrils of beds of other 

 shape. At the end is a garden-house, and a wide way out to lawn spaces 

 with fine trees and flowering shrubs. A broad gravel walk at the 

 boundary of the lawn, with a wide grass outer verge and the knee-high 

 top of the wall of a sunk fence, that separates it from the park, leads 

 leftwards to the house. From this walk there is a very beautiful view 

 across the steeply-falling gradient of the park to the lake. The park has 

 grand old oak trees that fall into picturesque groups. Beyond the lake 

 again are fine masses of timber. The lake is a sheet of water that takes a 

 winding course and disappears among the trees. 



The kitchen-garden walls are interesting survivals of an old way of 

 treating fruit-trees. They are three feet thick and honeycombed with 

 flues for heating. It was a clumsy and unmanageable expedient practised 

 in the days before the circulation of water in pipes heated from one boiler 

 was understood. The modern orchard-house is much more convenient 

 and its working absolutely under control. 



The kitchen garden lies between the house and the newer gardens 

 that have been described. The maze should not be forgotten. It is at 

 the back of the alcove and the bowling-green. These old garden toys 

 are very seldom planted now. Perhaps people have not time for them. 

 Also they are costly of labour ; the area of green wall of a maze of 

 even moderate size, that has to be clipped yearly, if computed would 



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