H ouse and Garden 
Such were the 
conditions which 
have borne fruit at 
Aysgarth as we 
view it today, 
where the most 
careless eye must 
surely see what it 
means for a place to 
have been continu¬ 
ously under intel¬ 
ligent management 
for nearly forty 
years. 
The house early 
had a garden for 
companion, but it 
was of less extent 
than we find it to¬ 
day. It comprised 
the half nearest the 
house, or that tra- 
THE SUN-DIAL BEFORE THE PEAR TREES 
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THE VINE-CLAD HOTHOUSES 
versed by the arbor, and also in¬ 
cluded the huge box bush at the 
end of the arbor’s vista. (See 
the plan opposite.) The box 
garden, which doubled the area 
of the original garden, was added 
by Mr. Lambert a year after he 
bought the place, and the old 
garden was redesigned by his 
son in 1898. 
Upon entering the garden en¬ 
closure through the arbor the 
latter portion is the first to come 
into view. First is the rose gar¬ 
den, consisting of three rectan¬ 
gular parterres and a surround¬ 
ing border; then comes the old 
formal garden rearranged. The 
illustration opposite shows it 
at an early stage of growth. The 
parterres are in rather small units 
and are edged with bricks set 
upon their ends. The planting 
in these small beds is corres¬ 
pondingly small in scale, and 
this year the visitor may see 
therein coxcombs, coleus, pe¬ 
tunias, geraniums, heliotrope, 
verbenas, marigolds, pinks, be¬ 
gonias, poppies and many other 
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