IV 



AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN 

 SPRING 



FOR those who cannot or who will not travel, 

 and whose gardening interests still leap 

 across seas to other lands, substitutes in the way 

 of photographs prove the alternative, supple- 

 mented, of course, by written description. And, 

 since substitutes some of us must and will have, 

 pictures of the type with which this writing deals 

 are as near perfection as such things may be. 



Here, to the eye accustomed to finding color, 

 light, and shade in pictures, are these qualities in 

 high degree. Here are shown forth a particularly 

 interesting ancient dwelling in Wales and its gar- 

 dens in the spring, Mathern Palace, for thirteen 

 hundred years an episcopal residence. 



In 1894 the property came into the hands of 

 Mr. W. Avray Tipping, the distinguished English 

 writer on architecture. Under his able direction 

 the conversion of the old house to meet the needs 

 of modern living was done without losing one 

 whiff of the savor of an antique time. That Mr. 



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