Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . viewed from the terrace at Wollaton, mightin certain aspects, and on certain days, stand for a Southern cityof dream-born and poet-planned creation. Turning back across the grass, past the small fountain basin,where the rose-pink water-lily raises her coronal of bloom abovea floating halo of bronzed foliage, we could almost wish the lawnwere broken again into squares, as in the picture by Sibrects (timeof Orange William) it is depicted ; for the plainness of the well-kept sward, as now, is in somewhat bald contrast to the architect-ural r
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . viewed from the terrace at Wollaton, mightin certain aspects, and on certain days, stand for a Southern cityof dream-born and poet-planned creation. Turning back across the grass, past the small fountain basin,where the rose-pink water-lily raises her coronal of bloom abovea floating halo of bronzed foliage, we could almost wish the lawnwere broken again into squares, as in the picture by Sibrects (timeof Orange William) it is depicted ; for the plainness of the well-kept sward, as now, is in somewhat bald contrast to the architect-ural richness backing it. So clear-cut still, by the way, is this richdetail of the house, despite its age, that when, in 1888, the RoyalAgricultural Society of Great Britain held its meeting in WollatonPark, the present Sir Walter Gilbey, observing the same, contra-dicted others on the date of the building, and made the bet of anew hat with some of the Council that it had not existed a hund-red years. He lost his hat: that year was the houses ^^£m:^-vz: IN THE PARK AT WOLLATON 31 32 Timollaton 1ball Leaving the house and its verdant fronting, we wander downa sloping path, shrub-bordered, past flourishing remains of moreold ilex, and come suddenly upon a garden terrace, glowing incolour, lying between the great Camellia House (that monumentof injudicious outlay, as wherein can one see the eight or tenthousand pounds spent on its erection?) and the ha-ha drop tothe Park. In that Park roamed of yore the wild white cattle of Britain. Those of Wollatonwere polled, and had blacknoses and insides of the fact of their beingdescribed as spotted, andgood milkers, and usedfor draught purposes, it isfairly certain that they hadbeen crossed with domesticbreeds ; and that the sevensole survivors, which weredestroyed by the seventhLord Middleton, were notworth preserving, as but lit-tle of the original strain this flowery parterre of the terrace garden, the
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