BULWICK HALL, 

 NORTHAMPTON, 



THE SEAT OF . . 



MRS. TRYON. 



GARDENS 

 OLD-&NEW 



S \VLHT and beautiful Bulwick has a garden suggestive to 

 many. Here is no giand st\U-, no lordly avenue, no 

 imposing terrace; only the di ar charm ot llx- old 

 domestic garden, the beauty and fragrance ol the 

 individual flower and the broad colour ma-.sc">, o| the 

 verdant lawn and the grass walk, of the long border and the 

 thickly-trellix d and clustered wall, of the quaint pillar, and the 

 gate fashioned by the hammer of the old cr.itt-.man. Nothing 

 here is beyond the compass of many. It is such a garden as 

 the loving hand may flush with a greater charm. We may 

 fancy that here the flowers must lo\e t" grow . responding t<> 

 the love that is IvM >wed upon them. " The Larkspur listens 

 I hear, I hear ! And the Lily whispers I wait." It is a 

 garden both orderly and rich, neither copying the wilful 

 wiklness of Nature, nor donning the formal bonds ot a more 

 grandiose ->t\le, fenced in from the outer world and belonging 

 truly to the house it adorns. Simplicity rules its character, 



from the broad flagged was that leads in from the ar. 

 entraiue to the sequestered paths where the lily and lark 

 and splendid hollvhock neighbour the queenly r--se in the 

 Compamoiiage of many a fair and ti.igi.int friend. 



Bulwick Hall itself is a building of plain and substantial 

 character, older than some of its features world suggest, (or it 

 was built in the seventeenth century, and is entered by 

 remarkable and unusual classic Colonnade be.irmg the date 

 1672. There are the picturesque features ot moss-grown 

 gate-posts, those curious segment il ste|>s below the- house. 

 nd gates and rails ot hammered iron belonging to that time, 

 and other interesting evidences ot old h.ibitati' n. 



But nothing is so attr.utive.it Hulwick hall as the park 

 and gardens. Of the former, it is enough to say that it is 

 large, and that it pleasantly clothes with its woodland be.iutu-s 

 hills of attractr.e contour and iltar.u t>-r. Main line trees 

 are here, well grown and rich in U-atage. disposed in g: 



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THE LONG GARDEN. 



