GARDENS OLD AND 



gentle, and the 

 character should be 

 of broad terracing, 

 with lawns and 

 woodland reaches. 

 But the house, 

 of course, would be 

 the central feature, 

 and here Mr. Duck- 

 worth displayed 

 excellent judgment 

 and discrimination. 

 His mansion arose 

 in the gabled style 

 which is described 

 as Elizabethan, but 

 no observer of 

 architectural ten- 

 dencies could assign 

 it to any century 

 earlier than the 

 nineteenth. To 



say this is not to disparage the structure, of which the 

 merits are indeed conspicuous. The lofty gables, bold 

 chimneys, pinnacles, and bay windows, with considerable 

 quaintness in design, make an excellent grouping. Beautiful 

 work in the matter of mouldings, crestings, finials, and other 

 details adds to the charm. From the point of view from which 

 the edifice is regarded in these pages, we are to observe how 

 admirably it falls into its surroundings, how grand wistari; 1 



THE WEST TERRACE. 



The advantage 

 OT situation is thus 

 demonstrated, and 

 like prospects greet 

 the eye in other 

 directions. In some 

 places the trees 

 approach nearer, 

 and delight by the 

 nobility of their 

 form and the 

 variety of their 

 foliage. Every- 

 where the stone- 

 work is excellent, 

 and the perforated 

 barrier walls are 

 admirable. There 

 are magnificent 

 vistas, and in ex- 

 ploring the beauties 

 of the garden it is 



delightful to find some pergola, as if from sunny Italy, giving 

 shelter by the way, and affording support to many growing 

 things. A wealth of floral enrichment provides both colour 

 and fragrance, and from the early days of spring until the last 

 winds of autumn have blown the gardens are full of attraction. 

 And when the deciduous trees have shed their leaves, nn 

 abundance of evergreens is there to make the winter verdant. 

 The beauties of the park have been suggested. Her* 



A VISTA. 



clothes the frontage with floral beauty, how ivy and other 

 clinging growths vest parts of the structure without concealing a 

 single architectural feature, and how graciously the gardens and 

 woods enter into the picture. The house is so advantageously 

 situated that it commands a full view of all the country around. 

 How beautiful is the treatment will be seen in one of our 

 pictures, where the outlook from the terrace, or balcony, in 

 trout of the house, is seen, with its well-gravelled paths, and 

 green expanses of turf terminated by dividing walls, with aloes 

 and floral triumphs in choice vases, beyond which the eye rests 

 with satisfaction upon a range of the park and a beautiful belt 

 of trees. 



are no empty levels of turf or wide and tasteless expanses ; 

 witness the extraordinary richness of the foliage, and the 

 remarkable splendour of individual trees and of the larger 

 masses of woodland. I lie park, thus diversified in its 800 

 acres, has an extent from lodge to lodge of some two and 

 a-half miles. The great lake, with an expanse of about 

 twenty-four acres, is one of the glories of the place, and the 

 landscape, with wood, water, and meadow, is most beautiful. 

 Another notable feature of the park is the ancient church of 

 Orchardleigh, which stands embowered amid foliage. Through 

 the instrumentality and generosity of Mr. Duckworth it was 

 restored under the care of Sir Gilbert Scott, K.A., in 1879. 



