GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



Could we seek a more fitting 

 centre about which a garden 

 should grow ? Where, 

 compared to such an object, 

 are the mouldering temples, 

 fabricated ruins, or ancho- 

 rites' cells of another age 

 than this ? Perish they 

 from the sweet domain, 

 where labour the conjoined 

 hands of Nature and Art 

 those presences dwelling 

 in the garden word ! 



But the added charms 

 of the Old Place do not 

 end here. There is the 

 sweetest fancy to be found 

 displayed in all the gates 

 and surroundings of the 

 mansion. Look, now, at the 

 marvellous grouping of the 

 house, where many gables 

 rise frcm overhanging stories, 

 where rarely-leaded windows 

 give their picturesque charm, 

 where the barge-boards are 

 a masterpiece of the crafts- 

 man's skill, and where the 

 chimneys and vanes rise up 

 Mark how the shadows fall 

 of sweet mystery 



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to the 

 on this 

 seems to 



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THE GREEN ALLEY. 



over-arching sky. 

 gl irious frontage ; 

 cling to the wood 



how an air 



and brick; ho.v the imagination is tempted to seek new 

 beauties in all those nooks and shadows, wherein clinging 

 clematis bestows its starry charm. What a pleasure, then, 



is it to pass down from that Tudor porch along the green 

 alley to the garden realm without, with the delight of 

 flowers and of yew. 



Then the garden-house ! Wh.it can we say of this 

 fascinating resort save that it is a supreme triumph of 

 garden architecture in subtle harmony with the surroundings, 



THE WEST END. 



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