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DRUMMOND 

 CASTLE, . , 



PERTHSHIRE. 



THE SEAT .... 

 or THE 



EARL OF ANCASTER. 



TiO enter an old Scottish garden characteristic intn>- 

 non to a garden survey --is to penetrate .1 \vnKI 

 .ire and mJivklu.il charm, where i\en the green 

 things that grow in orderly ranks reveal much "I 

 history. The ancient hostility between England and 

 the v . force of nature, .is it were, h.ul thrown our 



northern kinsmen into close sympathy with r-rance ; and when 

 Mw> the Scottish cro\\n. -he brought with her some- 



thing of tin- spirit of another land. The refinements of the 

 Ren. i and some of the I'ghter graces of the South 



begun thereafter to he grafted on the sturdy character <>t the 

 dwellings of her opulent subjects. The ru. mdeur of 

 the castles of the old Scottish thanes, which crowned many a 

 dizzy height and lifted their emhattlenu-nts above rocky preci- 

 pices, whence their warlike inhabitants had looked out over the 

 lower country, as eagles from their eyrie*. tH.k on something 

 of the charm of houses in gentler climes. Those tourelles "ii 

 tlie chieftain's fortress bespoke plainly some kinship with 



the chateaux of li.iiui. and tliost- who know Mr. Billn 

 wonderful work on the castellated and ecclesiastical ,| U ! 

 lure ot bcoiiand will he awaie how imposing i^ the ili.ir.uti-r 

 and liow beautittil the ilet.nl that resulted from the combination 



ol st\ le*. 



AS with the hi'use, >' with the garden. The wc-ll-h- 

 enclosure, the straiuht paths N-tween yew and jumper, the 

 lorm.il parteries, and the ilassjc vtoiu-work ot tlu-e n-ible 

 pleasauiKes. still breathe the ^pint "1 the ^outh, and in a tew 



chosen pi. ice-, .Is on the telt.ues at l)iummond Castle, where 



tender blooms flourish, one may now alm"M I.IIK\ "iii '^ -ell in 

 Mime garden of sunny Italy. where -lately vt.nrways.hy ter 

 fragrant with the blossoms ot oranges, shadowed by the tall 

 spires of cypie MS, and adorned with busts and antique 

 urns, lead up to while pala//o walls out in the full li^ht of 

 the sun. 



The Scottish garden-maker had .in ad\. intake which the 

 lover of the terrace will not overlook. In England the lighting 



THE OLD CASTLE AND THE NEW. 



