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 206
urrets curtain walls, as insome feudal stronghold, the stout walls full of windows andcrested by an attractive balustrade. The details are verygood, and a beautiful segmental double stairway on the northfront is particularly fine. Below are the terraces and gardens,and a long flight of broad steps,… … THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 158 GARDENS OLD AND NEU^. have regretted the expense, however, and would have buriedthe memory of it. Tradition, at any rate, asserts that hetied up the papers containing the accounts of his outlay andplaced upon the packet the inscription, The Deil pike out hiseen wha looks…
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