The castle stands at one corner of the old walled kitchen garden, 

 a door in the north front opening directly into it. The garden has no 

 architectural features. There are walks with high box edgings and 

 quantities of simple flowers. Everywhere is the delightful feeling that 

 there is about such a place when it is treated with such knowledge and 

 sympathy as have gone to the re-making of Kellie as a delightful human 

 habitation. For two sons of the house are artists of the finest faculty — 

 painter and architect — and they have done for this grand old place what 

 boundless wealth, in less able hands, could not have accomplished. 



Close to the house on its western side is a little glen, and in it a 

 rookery. When strong winds blow in early spring the nests in the 

 swaying tree-tops come almost within hand reach of the turret windows 

 of the north-west tower. 



How the flowers grow in these northern gardens ! Here they must 

 needs grow tall to be in scale with the high box edging. But Shirley 

 Poppies, when they are autumn sown, will rise to four feet, and the 

 grand new strains of tall Snapdragons will go five and even over six feet 

 in height. 



As the picture shows, this is just the garden for the larger plants — 

 single Hollyhocks in big free groups, and double Hollyhocks too, if one 

 can be sure of getting a good strain. For this is just the difficulty. The 

 strains admired by the old-fashioned florist, with the individual flowers 

 tight and round, are certainly not the best in the garden. The beautiful 

 double garden Hollyhock has a wide outer frill like the corolla of the 

 single flowers in the picture. Then the middle part, where the doubling 

 comes, should not be too double. The waved and crumpled inner petals 

 should be loosely enough arranged for the light to get in and play about, 

 so that in some of them it is reflected, and in some transmitted. It is 

 only in such flowers that one can see how rich and bright it can be in 

 the reds and roses, or how subtle and tender in the whites and sulphurs 

 and pale pinks. Other flowers beautiful in such gardens are the taller 

 growing of the Columbines, the feathery herbaceous Spiraeas, such as 

 .S". Aruncus, that displays its handsome leaves, and waves its creamy 

 plumes, on the banks of Alpine torrents, and its brethren the lovely pale 

 pink venustUy the bright rosy palmata and the cream-white Ulmaria, the 



