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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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builds them together out of its floating atoms, out of its infiniteopulence. The germ of an idea lies behind that. Little Nero is buried at the end of the garden, immediately behindthe point from which I took my drawing. It was the month ofthe outbreak of War in 1914 that I began it, and troops of livelyAmericans—as yet unable to secure a passage back to their country—came, drawn by legitimate interest, to visit the house and garden,and to look at the little stone raised by Mrs. Carlyles loving hands. Ah, poor little Neros grave ! exclaimed one and all—then,finding the ground occupied by a lady and a camp-seat, they staredat me instead ; and all but the bravest beat a hasty retreat. Tell Sir George, wrote Mrs. Carlyle, in a very wet summer,under date August 20th, 1860— I planted the cowslips with myown hand, and have not needed to water them ; the heavenlywatering-can . . . having saved me the trouble. I gave them theplace of highest honour (round poor little Neros stone). 270
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cc CO c/) CHAPTER XIII KELMSCOTT HOUSE, UPPER MALL.HAMMERSMITH BROWN of brick, square of frontage, solid and comfortable-looking, but externally by no means The House Beau-tiful, of which its most celebrated occupant dreamed, theGeorgian mansion in which William Morris died, stands facing theriver, and separated from it only by a narrow roadway, and a row ofnoble elms. The spectator who stands opposite the house, has on his right asomewhat squalid area of small cottages, dingy courts, and narrowpassages ; in the rear is a large and beautiful garden, separatedfrom the slum by high brick walls, and by Hampshire House ;the latter is an early Georgian residence, now a workmens socialclub, founded long after Morriss death, but carried on on lines ofwhich he would have strongly approved. The interior of Kelmscott House is not remarkable, but thefive windows of the drawing-room command a fine prospect oftwo of the Thames reaches ; to the right the eye is carried pastChiswick Eyot, towards Ke

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