Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932, Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co. · leaf 316
reconcile its identity with that of thepoor, tamed, often-clipped bush of every garden. The Laurel is sodocile, so easily coerced to the making of a quickly-grown hedge oruseful screen, that its better qualities as an unmutilated tree in a milddistrict are usually lost sight of. The house at Abbey… … forecourt; on the southern, the garden. Here, next the house, is a wideterrace, bounded on the outer side by the parapet of a retaining wall, andnext the building, by a running guilloche of box-edged beds filled with low-growing plants. The terrace has a semi-circular ending, near the easternwall…
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