. Some English gardens;. ich gives a charming picture of the lawns and simple flowerbeds to right and left. The path is paved with stone flags ; the garden isbounded with a low wall of the local oolite limestone that rock-plantslove. A few thin-topped old fruit-trees, their stems clothed with ivy,are another link between the past and present, and the somewhat patheticevidence of their having long passed their prime and being on the down-ward path, is in striking contrast with the robust vigour of the ancientyews, already some centuries old, and looking as if they must endure forever. Eight yew
. Some English gardens;. ich gives a charming picture of the lawns and simple flowerbeds to right and left. The path is paved with stone flags ; the garden isbounded with a low wall of the local oolite limestone that rock-plantslove. A few thin-topped old fruit-trees, their stems clothed with ivy,are another link between the past and present, and the somewhat patheticevidence of their having long passed their prime and being on the down-ward path, is in striking contrast with the robust vigour of the ancientyews, already some centuries old, and looking as if they must endure forever. Eight yews stand on either side—sixteen in all. They are known asthe twelve Apostles and the four Evangelists. The names may havebelonged to them from the time of their planting, for the whole placebelonged in old days to Evesham Abbey, and is pervaded with monasticmemory and tradition. This may also account for the excellence of the 70 THE TWELVE APOSTLES, CLEEVE PRIOR from the picture in the possession okSir Frederick Wigan I. buildings, for the old monks were grand constructors, and their structureswere not only solid but always beautiful. One of the older of these at Cleeve Prior is a large circular dovecoteof stone masonry with tiled roof and small tiled cupola. Such buildingswere not unfrequent in the old days, and many of them remain. Some-times they are round in plan, sometimes four-, sometimes there is a central post inside, set on pivots to revolve easily,with lateral arms carrying a ladder that reaches nearly to the walls, sothat any one of the many pigeon-holes can be reached. To the left of the Apostles Garden, as you stand facing the house, alittle gate leads into the vegetable garden. It has narrow grass pathsbordered with old-fashioned flowers. A further gate leads into theorchard. Behind the house is the home close with some fine trees ; ontwo other sides are the farm buildings, yard and rickyard. How grandly the flowers grow in these old mano
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