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a similar amount of space is taken up with vineries and hothouse 
flowers, tomato houses, and so forth. The houses, or most of 
them, are heated by underground furnaces, and the smoke is 
carried through a flue to a point in the woods a quarter of a mile 
away, where it escapes through a chimney. Most of the space in 
the garden is, of course, given over to the raising of kitchen 
produce and outdoor fruit, but the borders are very tastefully laid 
out with herbaceous flowering plants. The garden, which is kept 
in splendid order, was looking its best, there being a fine 
show of outdoor flowers in bloom, while vegetation was in an 
advanced stage of growth. It may be mentioned that straw- 
berries and red currants give promise of an excellent crop this 
season. Gooseberries, however, will be rather thin, and black 
currants do not seem to be a success. The crop of 
apples should be satisfactory. The apple trees, which are 
numerous, are all under sixteen years old, the old ones 
having been removed some time ago. The hothouse flowers and 
fruit commanded a good deal of attention and admiration. 
There were two houses with a grand show of schizanthi and 
calceolarias, and another with a very fine show of miltonia- 
orchids, while there was a good deal of odontoglossum, but these 
were past their best. In one house there is a large mass of 
Malmaison carnations, but they were only beginning to come into 
flower. The vineries are looking very well indeed, some bearing 
better bunches than they have produced for years. The two 
varieties principally cultivated are the Black Hamburgh and le 
Gros Colman, the vines of these varieties being about thirty years 
old. One variety named the Duke of Buccleuch is also culti- 
vated. It is a fine kind, but requires more than the usual care in 
management. On leaving the garden attention was directed to a 
very good example of the fern-leafed beech. Branches bearing 
the ordinary type of leaf appeared among the others, but getting 
too strong and numerous, they were cut away. 
The stately castle of Drumlanrig was next visited, and 
although members of the party were able to form a very good 
idea of its characteristics, time proved all too short to permit of a 
thorough examination. The building, which is four storeys high, 
forms a hollow square, and is surmounted with corner turrets. 
There is such an array of windows that, according to a common 
saying, there is one for every day in the year. In front there is a 
