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neat and trimly kept village. The cottages had a very cosy, 
comfortable look about them, their walls being profusely clothed 
with roses, clematis, and other pretty climbers; and the neatly 
kept gardens, filled with excellent crops of useful vegetables, as 
well as a good display of flowers in front of the cottages. It was 
quite the beau-ideal of a rural village, and it was the unanimous 
opinion that it formed an important adjunct to the estate, of the 
greatest credit to all concerned. 
Retracing our way to the Lintmill Gate, the policies were 
again entered, and turning to the left the home nurseries were 
passed on the rising ground as we crossed the Deskford Burn. 
A little farther, on the opposite side, the estate saw-mills were 
pointed out, screened from view by ivy-clad walls. Here the 
workmen, to the number of about thirty, were assembled in 
groups by the road-side, to see the cavalcade as it passed, and 
gave the members a lusty cheer, which was as heartily returned 
by them. The pinetum was soon reached on the left, in which 
were seen many fine specimens of coniferous and other ornamental 
trees and shrubs. Among the former, the following bulked 
largely—Abies Douglasii, A. cephalonica, A. grandis, A. Menzresit, 
A. nobilis, Araucaria imbricata, Cupressus Lawsoniana, Thuja 
gigantea, and Wellingtonia gigantea. The site is well sheltered, 
and the soil apparently suits the conifers, as they were generally 
in vigorous health, and formed handsome specimens. 
The road now lay up the Low Glen, which was clothed, for 
the most part, with splendid specimens of larch and silver fir, 
with a sprinkling of hardwood trees scattered among them. On 
the right was examined the finest larch tree in the grounds; 
it girthed 10 feet 1 inch, and had a clean stem of fully 50 feet, 
containing about 170 cubic feet of timber. In the immediate 
proximity were grouped a number of larch trees of a size not 
much inferior, the largest being 9 feet 8 inches in girth, and 
60 feet in length of bole. A tall larch tree, with a gracefully 
weeping habit, and of finely balanced proportions, was also much 
admired. Amongst other denizens of special note, in this unique 
and picturesque glen, were observed some magnificent Scots firs, 
whose scaly bark, hoary with mosses and lichens, betokened them 
of great age; also several splendid specimens of the Norway spruce, 
with trunks round as cylinders, straight as masts, with hoary 
and pendulous branches, dipping their spray in the rippling burn 
at their base. 
