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Title: Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Jessie
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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fect of the Bath Stone, with which it is faced, and which isinnocent of ivy or Virginian creeper. But truth to say, time hasdealt lightly with the old home of the Percys, who have themselvesdone much to preserve it. The devastating tide of our tumultuousmodern existence has swept past Sion, leaving it strangely silentand solitary, except on the occasional visits of its noble owner ;leaving its white walls, its green lawns, and its avenues wonderfullyunsmirched, although they are so comparatively near the smokeof London, and the Metropolitan boundary. Protected on its east side by the river, from which, owing toformidable defences, no trespasser can land, it is safeguarded else-where, and effectually concealed from vulgar curiosity, by broadintervening spaces of park-land, by its lovely gardens, and by whatWordsworth calls : A brotherhood of venerable trees. Venerable they undoubtedly are, but only comparatively so ;they are not nearly as ancient as the house, though there is in the 98
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^ Q. t. o o SION grounds a cedar of Lebanon of such mighty girth that it almostlooks as if it might have been contemporary with it, if cedarshad been known in England when the Lord Protector madehis unfortunate building venture. But it is generally agreed thatEvelyn introduced the cedar to England. He mentions in his Sylva, published in 1664, that he had received cones and seedsfrom the mountains of Lebanon. The Sion cedars were probablyplanted about 1670. With regard to the cypresses which still abound at Sion, Dr.Turner, physician to Edward VI. and to his uncle, the Lord Pro-tector, who dedicated his work The Names of Herbes, to theDuke, and dated it from Sion—refers to them as then growing thereplenteously. And Gerarde, in his Herball, published in 1597,remarks of the cypress, that there are trees of it at Sion, a placeneare London. But of still greater historical interest are theSion mulberry trees ; for they include what is reputed to be theoldest mulberry tree in England, said

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