V 
io 6 Old Time Gardens 
Rose Garden, a Water Garden ; a bit of the latter is 
on page 75. In some portions of these gardens, 
especially on the upper terrace, the Box is so high, 
and set in such quaint and rambling figures, that it 
closely approaches an old English maze; and it was 
a pretty sight to behold a group of happy little 
children running in and out among these Box hedges 
that extended high over their heads, searching long 
and eagerly for the central bower where their little 
tea party was set. 
Over these old garden borders hangs literally an 
atmosphere of the past; the bitter perfume stimu- 
lates the imagination as we walk by the side of 
these splendid Box bushes, and think, as every one 
must, of what they have seen, of what they know ; 
on this garden is written the history of over two 
centuries of beautiful domestic home life. It is well 
that we still have such memorials to teach us the 
nobility and beauty of such a life. 
