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other rare plants grow the Lychnis viscaria, Dianthus deltoides 

 and Stachys Betonica, all three rare in Scotland. 



Beyond this glen appeared the Loramond Hills, with their two 

 conspicuous conical tops, and to the eastward the waters of the 

 German Ocean. 



After resting an hour on the " Moredun," we now retraced 

 our steps by a winding pathway to the foot of the hill, and visited 

 the pleasure-grounds and flower-garden of Sir Thomas Mon- 

 criefFe, Bart. In the flower-garden are many beautiful exotics, 

 both herbaceous and arborescent. The garden, in my opinion, 

 evinces great taste and skill iu the arrangement and disposition 

 of its plants, both in the stove and parterre. On the wall of an 

 old fruithouse I saw a patch of Arenaria balearica, of which I 

 gathered a few specimens; how or by what means it got there I 

 cannot tell, only there it is, and none knows how. 



After inspecting the garden we went to the bothy from whence 

 we started. I was very tired and fatigued, and glad of rest, but 

 my companion, being only a youth (seventeen years old), was 

 nothing worse. 



After dinner, my friend the gardener went out to the adjoin- 

 ing plantation, and brought me in two plants which grew there 

 pretty freely, but knew not their names. I found them to be 

 Valeriana pyrenaica and Atropa Belladonna, both in flower. The 

 latter I had never before seen in a wild state in Britain, though 

 I have in Malta, where it is abundant at the foot of the walls 

 and fortifications during certain seasons of the year. 



Knowing that the train would be at the Bridge of Earn at five 

 o'clock P.M., and as it was now past four, I took my departure, 

 tired and weary and laden with spoils, and by half past five I 

 and my little son were safely in Bridge End at ray own fireside. 



John Sim. 



Bridge JEnd, Perth, Sept. 1859. 



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. . . We left home on Tuesday last to enjoy for a few days the 

 cool breezes of the Chiltern Hills, and to see nature in its 



