. Lutyens houses and gardens . s ani-mals ; but the fallow deer introduced by Count Considine,and the moufflon, chamois and rheas brought to the islandby Mr. Baring, add to its attractions. Lambay is a paradiseof birds, especially during the summer, and close on a hun-dred varieties make it their home. It is also an island offlowers. On the cliffs grow acres of scurvy-grass, with its Prosperos Island 137 creamy white flowers smelling like honey, and flooding theland with blossom. Grass, bracken, heath, rush and stonyground combine into a wild harmony. Rocks blazing withstonecrop and golden sam
. Lutyens houses and gardens . s ani-mals ; but the fallow deer introduced by Count Considine,and the moufflon, chamois and rheas brought to the islandby Mr. Baring, add to its attractions. Lambay is a paradiseof birds, especially during the summer, and close on a hun-dred varieties make it their home. It is also an island offlowers. On the cliffs grow acres of scurvy-grass, with its Prosperos Island 137 creamy white flowers smelling like honey, and flooding theland with blossom. Grass, bracken, heath, rush and stonyground combine into a wild harmony. Rocks blazing withstonecrop and golden samphire, swards bright with the coolgrey-blue of scilla verna enclosed by banks of sea pink, andgreat stretches of purple heather—these are the picturesframed by the margin of low-water rocks black with fungusor brilliant with yellow lichen. I sailed out of the littleharbour of Lambay with the feeling that Prospero had beenthat way, and laid on the island an enchantment that historyand Nature conspire to make real and 97.—A New Fireplace. 138 Lutyens Houses and Gardens CHAPTER XIITEMPLE DINSLEY, HERTS, 1909 On a site of the Knights Templars—Quadrupling an Old House—Creating Sunny Aspects—Corner Aviaries—Lead Garden Orna-ments-—A Racquet Court. TEMPLE DINSLEY as it stands to-day is a seventeenth-century house to which Sir Edwin has made addi-tions on a large scale, but its name marks its relation inmediaeval times with the Knights Templars. In Chauncys History of Hertfordshire there is a pictureof the house that stood on the site some time before 1700,which makes it clear that the central old part of the presenthouse was built about 1715, as it differs wholly from thedrawing. When Sir Edwin Lutyens was called in to makeTemple Dinsley what the illustrations show it, its extentwas small. The only part of merit, but it has great charm,was the middle block with a trio of windows on either sideof the central doorway (Fig. 98). The interior of this hasbeen remode
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