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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



The gardens and pleasure-grounds extensive, complete, and 

 well managed. 



Diiji/in Castle — near Perth; Earl of Kinnoul. A good 

 house, and well planted grounds. 



Duiikeld House, — at Dunkeld; Duke of Athol. A large plain 

 house in a bottom, surrounded by hills and mountains, cele- 

 brated for their extensive plantations, especially of the larch, 

 and for their romantic walks, waterfalls, streams, and rocks. 

 Obvious defects of this place are, that there is no proper walk 

 or wood to make a tour of the whole, and that the walks on 

 the hill side, do not ascend in regular gradation, but are de- 

 sultory and deficient in grandeur. 



Blair House,— near Blair; Duke of Athol. A genuine 

 Highland residence, chiefly remarkable for the extent of the 

 surrounding plantations which clothe many hundreds of acres 

 of lofty mountains and craggy steeps and hills. 



X Blair Drummond, — near Stirling ; Drummond, Esq. 



Celebrated as being the residence where Lord Karnes dis- 

 played his taste in planting and improving in the latter half 

 of the last century. The evergreens planted at that time are 

 now singular ornaments to the grounds. 



X Taymouth, — near Kenmore ; Earl of Bredalbane. I he 

 most magnificent residence in the county. The house a 

 spacious Gothic mansion, erected at different times, placed on 

 a lawn about a mile in breadth, between two mountains, 

 which open to Loch Tav on one side, and the Tay river passes 

 within two furlongs of the house. The mountains, lawn, and 



the banks of the waters, are richly clothed with wood, through 

 which are led magnificent walks. Of the trees, the limes and 

 larches have attained to a great size, and there is an ave- 

 nue of»the former 450 yards in length, scarcely equalled any 

 where. 



X Drummowl Castle,— near Crief; Lord Gwydir. The 

 castle enlarged, and the grounds extended and highly im- 

 proved by the present owner, assisted by his ingenious steward, 

 Lewis Kennedy. 



Ochterhjre,— near Crief; Sir P. Murray. A finely wooded 

 place, greatly improved by the present owner ; the kitchen- 

 garden and hot-houses laid out by Nicol. 



Lundie House, — near Dundee; Lord Duncan. An excellent 

 kitchen-garden, bv Hav'of Edinburgh. 



Valley field,— near Culross; Sir R. Preston. A romantic 

 residence, laid out from designs bv Rcpton, whose son visited 

 this place about 1804. The principal feature deserving a 

 stranger's notice is the approach through a wooded glen. 



Gartmore, - near Crief; Graham Esq. A fine old place, 



noted for its fine forests, old cedars from seeds brought from 

 Syria, and a good kitchen -garden by Nicol. 



Gletieagles, — near Stirling; Sir R. Abercrombie. A house 

 in the mixed style of Gothic and Grecian, of Adams, standing 

 in finely varied grounds, well planted, and containing a fine 

 piece of water, by White. 



Casile Grey, — near Perth; Earl Grey. A good house, by 

 Atkinson, in a delightful and well wooded situation. 



7637 ANGUS or FORFARSHIRE. A surface of 595,920 acres, consisting of mountains with exten- 

 sive arid fertile valleys ; the former generally bearing good pasture, and the latter under aration Mon- 

 trose and Arbroath have a few small market-gardens ; Brechin and Forfar have no market-garden ; but 

 many of the tradespeople cultivate spots of ground for their recreation ; and besides supplying their 

 own families, produce a sufficiency of culinary vegetables and small fruits to meet the demands ot their 

 townsmen It is estimated that upwards of 33,000 acres are covered with plantations. In aftertimes 

 this county will be celebrated as having given birth to the Dons, a family of botanists of superior order. 



The Forfar Botanic Garden — was founded by George Don, 

 a well known botanist, who added more plants to the British 

 Flora than any botanist of his time. The garden contains 

 little more than an acre; but embraces almost all kinds ot 

 soil and situation, and in it were crowded together nearly all 

 the hardy herbaceous plants and shrubs known in Britain. 



There is also a small green-house, containing above 100O 

 different species. Don died in 1SH ; but the botanic garden is 

 still kept up. 



Casile Glammis, — near Glammis ; Earl of Strathmore- A 

 very ancient building, renovated by Inigo Jones ; the grounds 

 in the ancient style, and containing some fine old trees. 



7638. KINCARDINESHIRE. A surface of 243,444 acres, mountainous towards the north, but more 

 level and fertile on the south-east. 



Brodie House, — at Brodie; Alexander Brodie, Esq. F. L-S. 

 A fine old place, much improved, and planted, by the present 



proprietor ; and containing a good botanic garden, and some 

 noble avenues. 



7639 ABERDEENSHIRE. A surface of 718,806 acres, generally flat, but varied by knolls, wavy 

 ridges and gentle inequalities, formerly moory and bleak, but now extensively planted. It is said, that 

 there 'is scarcely a gentleman in the county who has an estate of 100/. a year who has not planted some 

 hundred thousands of trees, and that there is above 50,000 acres in the county covered with artificial plant- 

 ations. There are a number of nurseries round Aberdeen noted for raising seedlings, many of which are 

 sent to the south of Scotland and to England. 



hedges, abundance of prolific fruit-trees, and venerable exotic 

 shrubs. 



Monymusk, — at Monymusk; Sir A. Grant. Remarkable 

 for its extensive plantations, the late proprietor having planted 

 about riftv millions of trees ; some of which, at the time ot 

 his death/were near one hundred feet high, and above six feet 

 in circumference. The gardens and pleasure-grounds are 

 beautiful and extensive. 



Invercauld House, — near Invercauld; Farquharson, 



Esq. Famous for its pine-forests, the timber of which equals 

 that of Norway. 



Slaiyies Castle, — near Slaines ; Earl of Errol. Situated on 

 the margin of the sea, with few trees around, but with a good 

 kitchen-garden. 



Den of Rubislaw, — near Aberdeen ; Professor Davison. A 

 romantic villa, the gardens forming terraces cut out of granite 

 rock, watered by a' stream, near which grow naturally many 

 rare plants, and among others, Linnaea borealis. The whole 

 kept in the highest order and neatness. 



; hilly and mountainous, with fertile valleys well 

 Banf. 



house ; the grounds celebrated for their fine woods, extensive 

 gardens, and romantic walks. 



Cullen House,— near Cullen ; Earl of Findlater. Remark- 

 able for its fine old woods : the late earl being one of the 

 earliest and most extensive planters in the country. 



The Aberdeen Nursery, — Messrs. Reid. An old and respect- 

 able establishment chiefly devoted to the culture of foreet 

 trees, and especially to seedlings of Scotch pine, larch fir, and 

 thoms. The father of the present occupier, who is also pro- 

 prietor of the soil (twelve acres), was gardener to Sir Archibald 

 Grant of Monymusk, the greatest planter in Scotland. 



Ross's Nursery, — a newly established concern, carried on 

 ■with great spirit. There afe various other nurseries. 



Market-Gardens. — These are numerous, both for the supply 

 of the town and shipping. Almost the entire parish of Old 

 Machar is laid out in this wav, and occupied by several 

 hundred industrious men. At Peterhead there are also gar- 

 dens for growing vegetables for the shipping of that place. 



Orchards. —There is an extensive one at Pitfour, containing 

 ten acres, including the ruins of the ancient abbey of Deer 

 and its gardens ; one of five acres at Auchterie, and some in a 

 neglected state between Kene and Monymusk. 



Cratlies, — near Aberdeen. Sir R. Burnet, Bart. An ex- 

 cellent kitchen-garden in the old style, with magnificent holly 



7640. BANFSH1RE. A surface of 649,600 acres 

 cultivated. There are some good market-gardens at 



X Duff House,— near Duff; Earl of Fife. A magnificent 

 quadrangular building, by Adams, in a park 15 miles m cir- 

 cumference, chiefly laid out by the late Mr. White. On the 

 other parts of the estate more trees have been planted than on 

 any property in the country. 



Gordon Castle, — near Gordon; Duke of Gordon. A large | 



7641 MORAYSHIRE. A surface 42 miles long, by 20 miles broad; great part hilly or mountainous, 

 with extensive pine-forests ; but with a considerable tract only gently varied and well cultivated. There 

 is a market-garden at Elgin, in which onions are chiefly grown for the parishioners, and two small 

 orchards: one at Logie, formed in 1786, and the other at Pitgaveny, formed in 1/98. 



7642 NAIRNSHIRE. A surface 17 miles long, by 10 miles broad ; the greater part level and fertile. 

 7643! CROMARTYSHIRE. A peninsular surface of 68,480 acres ; chiefly an elevated tract ot heath, 



but undergoing rapid improvement by the agriculturist. ■ 



7644 CAITHNESS. A surface of 395,680 acres ; generally flat ; described by Pennant as an immense 

 morass with some fertile spots. From the materials which compose this morass, it appears to have been 

 formerly full of wood ; but recent attempts to raise plantations have not been very successful 1 here is 

 a market-garden at Thurso of seven acres ; a remarkable circumstance, as there are none in the counties 

 of Cromarty, Ross, or Sutherland. 



Thurso Castle, — near Thurso; Sir J. Sinclair. Chiefly I some plantations, and a kitchen-garden, and many ingenious 

 remarkable for agricultural improvements, but displaying also | but abortive attempts at amelioration. 



7645 The ORKNEY and SHETLAND ISLES contain nothing that we have heard of worthy of 

 notice'in the way of gardening. Such a thing as an orchard is unknown in these islands. In Orkney, 

 Neill observes {Gen. Rep. sect. ii. p. 180.), a few apples are produced on wall-trees; in Shetland still fewer, 

 and that only in particularly good seasons. .J-L.^ . . . ir 



7646 SUTHERLANDSHIRE. A mountainous uncultivated surface of 1,4/8,400 acres; about half 

 of which is the property of the Marquis of Stafford, who has enlarged the farms, built new farmeries, 



