PRIVATE GARDENS 
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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 off 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 
