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THE = GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 29, 1874, 
and embattled roof, omg to the pra times which 
necessitated the adop 
more especially i om, ex 
to the rival factions that so long mol in deadly 
strife wad supremac 
There is a peculiar attraction in the contemplation 
of these grand old buildings that stand as ene ents 
of poeem that are p yet who live, as ere 
and s speak hrough the long- pies 
m to to us 
works rich they raised, and pat appear almost to 
defy the ravages of time. moye lingers in 
f reverie over these solid piles t s have for 
ran resisted the inroads of decay, and seem as if des- 
d yet to see many more generations “of our race 
hulle off their mortal coil. 
mt i s with the garden and grounds at Lev 
that our province more pariy lies. The palios 
once inside, is impressed with the apparent antiquity of 
the place. The mansion, the different tofe, and ~ 
f the 
ethan i 
Colonel Grahme a gentleman 
who, in ny love for gargenng roi ree in anr 
ing it ou advance of 
the ai of sdi in his Erate 
o e 
Da re some r eet i pth, rich unctuous 
Bane, “l no doubt 4 alluvial deposit from the 
n front of the hou which faces pan 
north, is a 
propriate 
wards, 
eye catche es the. distag 
three or four miles 
of ro 
iiad 
seems to have been a gen 
must hav ood a 
ey ase ‘erase, on which is a 
filled the mer season with 
an tique vase 
ms thie; ‘terrace, looking west- 
o 
plants 
is a fine 
e 
away. These perpendicular menen 
ck are brought out in ne peliet by the back- 
of richly timber try dete ag. 
The broad expanse of highly cultivated meadows lying 
Fic, 55.—VIEW IN THE GARDEN AT LEVENS. 
immediately next pas ree of the house have their sur- 
face Terreng by sta 
defea 
dsd 
a 
assume some particular form—human beings, as 
as the lower animals, birds and beasts, are iie 
-og 
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sented. 
We have here good Que 
bai crow 
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n and un mistakable mf = a 
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ai esty’s BP 
e ean the Briti 
but so far as his general appearance goes, pia ry 
tuft on his tail, he is a picture of healt and vigour, 
Near here there is a monstrous living example of that 
highest repository of wisdom, the judge’s wig, and so 
far ing a representative in form of a t append 
age it is appropriately named. It is mposed of a 
number of common Yews planted ina hal circle, so 
nehes ove 
as to form an arbour, by bringing the bra bet 
the op ina : hood- like fashion. yi seat a i 
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of the most curious and perfect 
pating i imagina ae, y ere the bran 
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