The next day, when Diana looked out from her window, she saw a large and dreary park wrapped in scudding rain which promised evil things for the shooting-party of the day.

Mr.Marsham senior had apparently laid out his park and grounds on the same principles as those on which he had built his house.

Everything was large and expensive.

The woods and plantations were kept to a nicety; not a twig was out of place.

Enormous cost had been incurred in the planting of rare evergreens; full-grown trees had been transplanted wholesale from a distance, and still wore in many cases a sickly and invalided air; and elaborate contrasts in dark and light foliage had been arranged by the landscape-gardener employed.
Dark plantations had a light border--light plantations a dark one.