Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 204
f the grass.As Thomas Hardy says of the Vale of Blackmoor, with slighte.xceptions, the prospect in such places is a broad richmass of grass and trees mantling minor hills and fair,pastoral dales. The forests, as we said, have departed,though some old customs that belonged to them seemstill to be… … THE ENTRANCE GATES. are one of the principal attractions, though the tall elm and thespreading chestnut seem to predominate. The broad-leavedplane and the nodding birch are of the goodly company, andhave their part in the sylvan charms of these Dorset valleys.Mapperton House has fine lawns and…
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