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Identifier: lutyenshousesga00weav (find matches)
Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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96.—At the Head of the Stone Stair in New Wing, Lambay. which is to say much. The great grey seals which breed inthe caverns are the most attractive of its indigenous ani-mals ; but the fallow deer introduced by Count Considine,and the moufflon, chamois and rheas brought to the islandby Mr. Baring, add to its attractions. Lambay is a paradiseof birds, especially during the summer, and close on a hun-dred varieties make it their home. It is also an island offlowers. On the cliffs grow acres of scurvy-grass, with its Prosperos Island 137 creamy white flowers smelling like honey, and flooding theland with blossom. Grass, bracken, heath, rush and stonyground combine into a wild harmony. Rocks blazing withstonecrop and golden samphire, swards bright with the coolgrey-blue of scilla verna enclosed by banks of sea pink, andgreat stretches of purple heather—these are the picturesframed by the margin of low-water rocks black with fungusor brilliant with yellow lichen. I sailed out of the l

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