A garden restored
AMONGST the celebrated country seats in the west of England Westonbirt... takes rank with such places as Chatsworth and Trentham.’ So wrote William Goldring, assistant editor of in the issue of February 20, 1886, of the estate that, by then, had been owned by Robert Stayner Holford, one of the richest men in Britain, for nearly 50 years. In 3,500 words, Goldring sets out his reasoning, admiring the garden’s harmonious design with its many ‘vistas, glades and nooks’, marvelling at the lake, the rockery and the formal Italian garden and waxing lyrical over the 30-plus glasshouses filled with a profusion of
