More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1902)
Malan, Alfred Henry, comp · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 174
uliar beauty, intermingled with a certain grotesque charm,rarely leaves the stranger quite unmoved, for the garden seemsfairly bewitched. Great fantastic forms cut in yew and scatteredabout at intervals rise before us as far as the eye can see ; here apeacock, there an archway, now a huge umbrella,… … VIEW OF THE HALL FROM THE GARDENS 143 144 Xevens Iball clear against the blue September sky. And what a glorious car-pet lies beneath them, luxuriant, fragrant, and gorgeous as Na-ture only can paint it! Pansy, fuchsia, marguerite, lily, salvia,bergamot, pink, they grow side by side in apparently…
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