CAWDOR CASTLE 



NAIRNSHIRE 



RIOUS are the elements which go to 

 make a perfect garden, each of them 

 appealing in its degree to different 

 persons according to their temperament 

 and training. Not very numerous are 

 those competent to criticise the technicalities of culti- 

 vation, but the pleasure is very complete which their 

 knowledge enables them to derive from a visit to 

 a collection so large and intelligently tended as Mr. 

 William Robinson's at Gravetye Manor or Canon 

 Ellacombe's well-stored grounds at Bitton Vicarage. 

 Historic association or romantic tradition appeals to 

 a larger number, and these will be as agreeably 

 moved by gazing on the bleak formality of Diane de 

 Poictiers' garden at Chenonceaux as by the enchant- 

 ing groves into which they pass through Ibn-1-Ahmar's 

 Gate of Pomegranates in the Alhambra. 



For such persons the ample grace of the gardens at 

 Hatfield will be enhanced by their antiquity, and the 

 recollection that the pleached lime-trees and venerable 

 mulberries were planted for the delectation of Robert 



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