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Violet 8th Duchess of Rutland, extract from her notebook regarding the Rose Garden:
’It is approached by an old pair of iron gates. Yew hedges I put encircle all the top side.
The lie of the castle made it a very difficult question— a precipice taking its own line. Peto found a
shape of the prow of a boat the best solution - a very high wall excavating and levelling was necessary to get it
formal and interesting—and flagged paths, a half-circled seat on raised steps and a small lily pond’.
