Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 210
or a most exquisite play of lightand shade in the rich velvety green ; for cypress, when clipped, has ifpossible a more beautiful texture than yew. Originally laid out as apure parterre de broderie, the flowers in their insinuating way havegradually crept in, until, at the present day, the curving… … some fifty feet in diameter, which, unlike the majority of fountainsof earlier date, has no centre-piece. In place of the centre-pieceis a powerful jet, which, rising a hundred feet in the air, breaks intofinest rain, and, as the great basin is insufficient to catch the fallingspray, all the…
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