PRIVATE GARDENS 343 



Near the bridge leading to the Japanese garden there 

 is a beautiful evergreen oak and rare forest trees, while 

 on the lawn some old cedars, planted by Charles James 

 Fox, are showing signs of decrepitude, although the 

 delightful picturesque effect a cedar always has, adds 

 one more to the many charms of this, the most beautiful 

 as well as the largest of London gardens. 



There is a charming group of houses standing in 

 their own grounds still left on Campden Hill, although 

 Campden House has been demolished and its site built 

 over within the last few years. The property on which 

 Campden House stood, and some authorities say the 

 house itself, was won over some game of chance in 

 James I.'s time by Sir Baptist Hicks, afterwards Viscount 

 Campden, from Sir Walter Cope, the builder of Holland 

 House, hard by. It was to Campden House that Queen 

 Anne's little son, the Duke of Gloucester, was taken 

 for country air. The air is still pleasant on these 

 heights, and the open tract of Holland Park gives so 

 much freshness that plants flourish wonderfully. There 

 are good gardens attached to many of the houses — Cam 

 House, Blundell House, Aubrey House, Thornwood, 

 Holly, and Moray Lodges, and several others. Holly 

 Lodge is noteworthy as having for a few years been 

 the residence of Lord Macaulay. There are some 

 charming trees in the grounds, even yews (which are 

 among the first to suffer from smoke) looking well ; a 

 good old mulberry and silver elms, and a camellia in a 

 border near the wall, which often flowers out of doors, 

 although some years the half-open buds drop ofl^ from 

 the effects of frosty fogs. 



Cam House has one of the most charming gardens. 

 It is now lived in by Sir Walter Phillimore, and has 



