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Identifier: otherfamoushomes00mala (find matches)
Title: Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, A(lfred) H(enry), (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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witha tire place in it, not only for my Grand Children, but will proveany Grown Person, and recommend you to ask the D. andSurgeon theyr thoughts of your making up of fuch an application,when it pleafe God you may ufe it with fafety. This Family fendyou both Bleffing and aflec^^ fervice, and Judy hopes you rec^.her Letter dated y^ 22^^ inft: with a Bill in it of thirty pounds ;the beft news is, that this neighbourhood is in Good Health :that you may have merry Xmafs and a long feries of new yearsis the real wifhes of Dear Roger,Your very affec^ Father, J. Bridgeman. The 26th of Dec^, 1733. I make no apology for quoting this letter /// extenso, for it wouldbe interesting for its age alone, apart from, the mention of themaking of the bath. A conservatory stands at either corner of this garden. In theearly spring these are bowers of roses. Box hedges, wide andthick, form as it were a boundary to this, the front garden ; theyare on a lower level, the tops of them just showing a couple of
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90 Caetle 15rom\x)icb feet above the gravel walk; we descend between them a flightof old stone steps, upon the top and bottom of which standmoss-grown stone vases, with the Bridgeman arms carved uponthem, though these are rapidly becoming effaced by time. In.this part of the Garden all is given up to shrubberies and lawn.Grassy paths intersect the shrubberies, which are filled withflowering shrubs and trees of all kinds : Snowy Mespilus, whichin spring resembles a chocolate cake well sugared, with its white,starry blossoms and brown leaves ; changing in the autumn toevery shade of crimson, more vivid even than the Americanmaple. This tree is but too little known. The Pirus Salicifoliais another most graceful tree : the foliage is of brightest silverytinge, very drooping and feathery ; and in the spring it bears alovely sweet white blossom, something in scent and appearancebetween May and pear. In the upper shrubbery there is a finespecimen of a Glastonbury thorn, which flowers every w

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