An English Castle and Its Village 
remains of the Lady Chapel, an oratory 
situated on the banks of the neighbouring 
river Coquet, which tradition connects with 
the well-known romance of “The Hermit of 
Warkworth,” of which two sons of the Bert¬ 
ram family were the heroes. 
Overlooking the castle are the banks 
which form the grounds of Bothalhaugh, a 
house built in the Elizabethan style by the 
Rector of Bothal, the Honourable and 
Reverend William Ellis, whose mother 
should have received the title of Baroness 
of the ground to produce masses of flowers, 
chosen for their effect and not their rarity, 
and such as shall supply a succession of 
colour. On a broad expanse of green turf 
about four hundred yards long and ten 
yards wide, in the earliest spring a bril¬ 
liant mass of snowdrops and crocuses 
give an artificial sunshine at the time when 
a cloudy sky dulls the scene. This is fol¬ 
lowed by another broad border of the lovely 
blue Siberian squill. Following these, in 
other parts are daffodils by the acre. Then 
STEPPING STONES ON THE RIVER 
Ogle, if her father, the Duke of Portland, 
by an historical oversight, had not so settled 
his property that the more valuable but less 
interesting London property should go to his 
daughter. 
I he grounds at Bothalhaugh are inter¬ 
esting as an attempt to help instead of 
forcing nature. They have an extent of 
eighty acres. They are chiefly on a high 
bank overlooking the river Wausbeck. Apart 
from a collection of evergreen and deciduous 
trees seldom seen, advantage has been taken 
the view is enriched by masses of the Japan¬ 
ese crab, Paul’s double crimson and the 
double pink and white thorns. Then the 
columbines of various hues light up a whole 
bank. When these have faded away, fox¬ 
gloves take their turn. There is a drive of 
half a mile bordered on both sides with 
hybrid sweetbriar, and Japanese roses which 
fill the air with their fragrance. Later on 
an acre of the Japanese meadowsweet, 
spircea palmata, entrances the eye with its 
soft rosy blooms. The stately giant polyg- 
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