Some turf forms the pavement of the long green aisles. The ground 

 Scotch line of the towers is marked out with care in great beds of 

 Gardens R ses re d and white : the Lady Chapel is formed entirely of 

 carnations, and so on with the other architectural points. A 

 range of purple hills in the background completes the picture, 

 the effect of which, as a whole, is singularly rich and unlike 

 other gardens that one knows in Scotland or in England. Such 

 a flower garden could scarcely be imagined anywhere else than 

 as belonging to some fine Highland place. The space needed 

 to carry out with success so grand a scheme would have to be 

 indeed immense ! 



This is all that remains to the writer, after the long 

 lapse of years, in remembrance of many a fine old Scottish 

 place. 



Of some more modern gardens in the North that I have 

 more recently seen, it is sad to feel how the chief surviving im- 

 pression of them to be now recalled and this but a faint impres- 

 sion is that they were all full of yellow Calceolaria and Begonia 

 and scarlet Geranium, and of all that wealth can afford in 

 troops of gardeners, and interminable glass for the upbringing 

 of a depressing class of bedders, carefully nurtured in order to 

 make a good show for late summer use not for Pleasure, as is 

 perhaps vainly imagined. 



The garden belonging to an old Scotch house commonly 

 is, or used to be, a square of an acre or so enclosed within high 

 stone walls, at an inconvenient distance from the house or 

 "castle," and I think almost always it will be found to be on 

 ground sloping to the South. A garden such as this I have 

 known for years. That garden can never be forgot, for some 

 of my happiest hours have been spent there. A thick grove of 



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