The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . oyles words,it was quite flat: there were no bosky pathsor green surprises of nut-tree close, norhidden grassy ways or pleasant orchardcorners. The whole nlace could lie Been roused Addison to pen his famous satirehas no place; but is replaced by a shortpergola and square pyramids with conicspires which stand at points of vantageon the lawns. More fanciful is the ruined house at the end of one of thesmall lawns. It was made from a largeYew, fully 50 years old, and at first itwas intended to lower the
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . oyles words,it was quite flat: there were no bosky pathsor green surprises of nut-tree close, norhidden grassy ways or pleasant orchardcorners. The whole nlace could lie Been roused Addison to pen his famous satirehas no place; but is replaced by a shortpergola and square pyramids with conicspires which stand at points of vantageon the lawns. More fanciful is the ruined house at the end of one of thesmall lawns. It was made from a largeYew, fully 50 years old, and at first itwas intended to lower the hedge some-six feet, leaving square bastions at eitherend. But this impulse yielded to thehappy idea of transforming the Yew into-the semblance of a ruined house, and bydint of much patience and a deal of skillthe old Yew has been transformed—the-living symbol of a dead past. The Flowter Borders. Those stately hedges of Yew, whichcreate the illusion of a terraced garden,are but one of the notable characteristicsof Huntercombe. Others are the manyold. iron gates of beautiful workmanship,. Fie. 127. StZt [Photograph by H. N. King. -HPNTERCOMBE MANOR, Ut/CKINGHAMSHXRE, THE RESIDENCE OF HON. MRS. R. BOYLE. at a glance. In front of the house therewas an oblong-shaped lawn laid out withflower beds, with tall Roses bordering abroad gravel walk—otherwise the gardenwas featureless. Then one dark Novem-ber evening. when Mrs. Boyle waspondering what she could do to makethe dreary flat, interesting, the visionof trim Yew hedges flashed upon the wonderful Yew hedges, illus-trated in tig. 128, came into enclose the smooth, rich green,level lawn, and started as three-feet-highYews and planted thickly, they producedin a few years these perfect the low Yew walls, three feet highand four feet across, with their tall finials,are Yews clipped in other fashions; buttopiary work, as exemplified by , and the like, finds no place at Hun-tercombe. Dig
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