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 260
nities of the garden designer were certainlyvery many in this lovely place. The green lawn in the valleybordering the river, with the great woods fringing the banks,was an ideal place for his work. The v/oods nearly meetingin eitlier direction form the lawn into a kind of amphitheatre,and the… … THE EAST SUNDIAL. 212 GARDENS OLD AND NEW. The enclosure is formed by an admirable yew hedge, denseand close as a wall ; bat this boundary does not completelysurround the garden, which on one side is margined by theriver and the wood. Straight pathways divide the space intoformal parterres, and…
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