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 56
r 40ft. belowthe southern part of the castle rock, and, in an oblongshape, it covers some ten acres. They are acres of singularbeauty when surveyed from any one of those three grandarchitectural terraces, and the plan of the garden is curious,original, and distinctive. It takes the form of a St.… … GARDENS OLD AND NEIV. at this point, running severally from north-west to south-east, and from south-west to north-east. These walks of fine turf may be described as bars of the cross, and are so in fact in the desion, as may be seen in our pictures. It must be noticed that, with the e.xception of…
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