. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ly, as light against dark counts for so much in allornamental gardening, and as there is such a ubiquitous spreadof turf elsewhere, a flooring of white crushed spar might bemore effective, as a line of demarcation between the dull red ofthe house and the dingy ivy-clad wall of the moat. A matterof opinion. To the right, through a curtain-arcade, is a short cut to theflower garden, that has been evolved, in recent times, from that elegant wilderness which Blomefield specified as being one ofthose attractions of the place well worthy of th
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ly, as light against dark counts for so much in allornamental gardening, and as there is such a ubiquitous spreadof turf elsewhere, a flooring of white crushed spar might bemore effective, as a line of demarcation between the dull red ofthe house and the dingy ivy-clad wall of the moat. A matterof opinion. To the right, through a curtain-arcade, is a short cut to theflower garden, that has been evolved, in recent times, from that elegant wilderness which Blomefield specified as being one ofthose attractions of the place well worthy of the attention ofsuch as make the Norfolk tour. With its gorgeous displayof spring bloom, it is a fair enough Eden to walk in, in the coolof the day, when the breeze has died down at sunset, and all isstill ; when the mellow and spirited snatches of blackbirds andthrushes are the only sounds audible, save the brusque, muffledcallings of some restless cuckoo ; when the wallflowers are givingout their richest fragrance, and vie with auriculas and pansies in. io BUcfclino Iball producing a perfect feast of colour, to delight and almost dazzle theeye. Alas, the bright April sunshine so soon scorches up all theprimrose tribe, and mars the beauty of the beds, that one almostthinks a preferable way of displaying such flowers would be asa ring just around the foot of a tree on a lawn ; the semi-shadein which they are thus grown considerably prolonging the bloom,and the rising ground at the base of the tree-trunks being so wellout of the way of the mowing-machine that the lawn can bekept mown, and yet the flowers allowed to die down in method of culture is very extensively and prettily practisedat Belton, the Lincolnshire home of Lady Lothians sister; wherealso may be noted large breadths and strips of Lent lilies at thelake-edge, and a profusion of narcissi forming natural borderingsto shrubberies, such as are to be found here, studded about onthe grass, in among the specimen t
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