“ Airlie ” 
on a picturesque 
bridge and con¬ 
tinues through the 
belt of woodland 
to the coach sta¬ 
bles, some 300 
yards distant. On 
the east side of the 
house the terraces 
are continued, 
finding their nat¬ 
ural termination at 
thefnorth end of 
Jk 
the [wing, from 
which a stone wall 
runs to the bridge. 
Behind this wall and hidden by a row of cedars, 
a characteristic native tree, the servants’ entrances 
of the house are situated. 
The rear porch, on the south side of the house 
and in winter enclosed in glass, is on the nat¬ 
ural level of the crest of the knoll on which the 
house is built. The south slope of the knoll as it 
falls away to the adjoining pasture land offers a 
charming effect; 
the surface of the 
ground is broken 
By outcroppings of 
rock and matted 
with a dense 
growth of honey¬ 
suckle, which in 
this climate is 
practically ever¬ 
green and through 
which in the spring 
daffodils r a lse 
their cheerful 
heads. On the 
west side of the 
house, below the terraces and overlooked by a broad 
veranda, lie the flower gardens. A pergola ex¬ 
tends from the end of the veranda southward and 
passing through this and down several flights of 
stone steps one enters the gardens, surrounded by 
stone walls and lying between two rows of Lom¬ 
bardy poplars. Before one stretches a straight 
path, ending in a mass of shrubbery under an arbor, 
THE HOUSE FROM THE FORMAL GARDEN 
THE DINING-ROOM 
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