Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932, Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co. · leaf 232
ght, or to shut it out for human enjoyment of summercoolness—all such grounds of motive were, just as now, deliberated bythe men of old days, whose decisions, actuated by sympathy with bothhouse and ground, would bring forth a result whose character would bethe same, whether thought out and planned… … and new work added of a like kind, such as will make use of the widermodern range of garden plants, while it retains the dignity and grandeurof the fine old place. The house stands on a wide space of grass terrace commanding thegarden. On a lower level is a large quadrangular parterre, with cross…
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