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GARDE\S OLD AND 



introduced by Paxton, and at 

 an earlier date several perished 

 under the hand of Repton at 

 Bur!ey-on-the-Hill. At 

 Haddon Hall the famous ter- 

 races form a beautiful feature, 

 and are well described in 

 " The Formal Garden in 

 England," and there, as at 

 Clifton Hall, the yew casts its 

 shadow over the turf. The 

 gardens of Haddon "are laid 

 out in four main levels ; at 

 the top is a raised walk. . . , 

 planted with a double row of 

 lime trees. About i oft. below 

 this is the yew tree terrace, 

 divided into three plots, about 

 1 5yds. square, surrounded by 

 stone curbs, with yew trees 

 in each angle. These were 

 once clipped, but are now 

 grown into great tree*. over- 

 shadowing the entire terrace. 

 'Dorothy Yernon's Stairs' 

 descend on to this yew tree 

 terrace. A flight of twenty-six 

 led from this terrace to 





a lower garden about 4ovds. square, divided into two 

 grass plots. A walk from this garden skirted round two 

 sides of a second garden laid out in three levels, and 

 reached the postern door in the outer garden wall In- 

 seventy-one steps, laid out in seven consecutive flights." 

 This was an example of garden architecture and design 

 at their best. 



Clifton Hall is also very dignified and beautiful in arrange- 

 ments of analogous character though different form, for the 

 grass terraces are adorned with beautiful stonework, and with 

 classic features scarcely surpassed in English gardens. That 

 charming grouping of the curved stairways to the terrace by 



THE CANOVA LIONS. 



' Country 



the old chapel might have been transported from some old 

 Italian garden of lemon and cypress, of marble stairways and 

 plashing fountains. Look at the mellow stonework, at the 

 mosses that clothe the surface, at the ivy that fondly clings, 

 at the beautiful vases filled with floral wealth ; think what it is 

 to ascend to the green terrace above, and to look out over the 

 balustrade across that noble basin covered with water-lilies, 

 and at the gracious scenes arounJ. Then, again, how note- 

 worthy is the quaint and attractive character of the contrasted 

 semi-circular form of another flight, the convex shape of the 

 lower steps leading to the concave plan of the upper ascent. 

 These are instances of imagination leading to a beautiful 





THL RIVtk-SIDB CIRCLb STAIRWAY. 



'Country Lift." 



