The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . s of all sorts, an oldfountain trickles in front of a picturesque arbour. This isindeed a spot of the daintiest and rarest beauty, the productof nigh four centuries of care and time, which no expenditureof money or art could possibly create. But even the Public Gardens have still some elements ofthis kind, which go to intensify a beauty chiefly derivedfrom delightful groves of lime; shelving banks of grass;winding streams with floating water-lilies ; wide, levellawns; long, soft walks of velvet turf; evergreen trees ofmany-toned verdure; dar
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . s of all sorts, an oldfountain trickles in front of a picturesque arbour. This isindeed a spot of the daintiest and rarest beauty, the productof nigh four centuries of care and time, which no expenditureof money or art could possibly create. But even the Public Gardens have still some elements ofthis kind, which go to intensify a beauty chiefly derivedfrom delightful groves of lime; shelving banks of grass;winding streams with floating water-lilies ; wide, levellawns; long, soft walks of velvet turf; evergreen trees ofmany-toned verdure; dark-boughed yews and variegated 1890] The exquisite Beauty of the Gardens, 429 hollies ; walls with clustering roses and creepers; andborders rich with masses of sweet and lovely flowers. Allthese cover an expanse of thirty acres ; while eleven more—called the Wilderness, in which is the Maze—form apleasant and shady retreat of winding walks, overshadowedby the foliage of ancient trees. To appreciate, however, the full fascination of the orardens. The Privy Garden. of Hampton Court, they should be seen and enjoyed in allcircumstances ; at all times of the year ; and at every hour ofthe day—in early spring, when the tender leaves of thelimes contrast with the sombre tints of the yews; when thelawns are dressed in the dazzling brightness of fresh green,and the borders lined with crocuses, tulips, and hyacinths ;in the early summer, when the lilacs, laburnums, cyringas, 430 Histoiy of Hampton Court Palace, [1890 wisterias, and lime-trees are flinging their mingled fragranceon the air; and in the height of the summer, when all theflower-beds are ablaze with splendour, and the fountainis joyously spouting its streaming showers, which flashlike diamonds in the beams of the golden sun, and then meltinto vaporous spray, on which dance miniature should be seen even in winter, when the boughs ofthe yew-trees and hollies are spangled with hoar-frost, orenwreathed with sn
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