. Some English gardens;. s,busts that came from an Italian villa. About half way along steps leaddown to the moat, where there is a ferry-punt propelled by an endless rope,such as is commonly used in the fenlands. At the end of the long walkis a curious seat with a high carved back, that looks as if it had onceformed part of an old ship or state barge, in the bygone days of twohundred years ago, when a fine style of bold and free wood-carving waslavishly used about their raised poops and stern-galleries. Towards the end of the second division of the walled garden is an oldorangery or large gar
. Some English gardens;. s,busts that came from an Italian villa. About half way along steps leaddown to the moat, where there is a ferry-punt propelled by an endless rope,such as is commonly used in the fenlands. At the end of the long walkis a curious seat with a high carved back, that looks as if it had onceformed part of an old ship or state barge, in the bygone days of twohundred years ago, when a fine style of bold and free wood-carving waslavishly used about their raised poops and stern-galleries. Towards the end of the second division of the walled garden is an oldorangery or large garden house, that probably was in connexion with thescheme of the yew hedges. It has the usual piercing with large lightsbut no top-light. The original purpose of these buildings was the housingof orange and other tender trees in tubs, and the fact of its presence mightpossibly throw some light on the mystery of the gardens formerplanning. ^3 THE YEW HEDGE, CAMPSEY ASHE from the picture in the possession ofMr. H. W. Search. Good hardy flowers are everywhere in abundance. Specially beautifulin the later summer is a grand pink Hollyhock of strong free habit,with the flowers of that best of all shapes—with wide, frilled outer petalsand centres not too tightly packed. It would be interesting work for some one with a knowledge ofthe garden design of the past three centuries in England to try toreconstruct the original plan of some one time. Though on the groundthe various remaining portions of the older work cannot be piecedtogether, yet, if these were put on paper to proper scale, it mightbe possible to come to some general conclusions as to the way in whichthe garden was originally, and again perhaps subsequently, laid of the remaining portions of the older work of quite differentdates may now seem to be of the same age, but the expert wouldprobably be able to discriminate. The result of such a study wouldbe worth having even if actual reconstruction were not contemplated
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