IWUMMOfffD CASH*. 



Kif.ui. .is m.inv n. 1 ' made for greater peace in the land, 



had been tempted down from tlu where his castle 



>ed intu the more delectable life ol the wide valle\s and 



plains. His descendants might love the plr.ulu -d alle\ . the 



. and the lei race ; but in many case* the 



!..r the Litter wen- denied them. In 



how < <>n the hill remained a plan- ot power l.tr 



l.itt-r than in hngland. and. when the new spirit came in. the 



matrn.ils t"f line effects lay on the slopes below ready in the 



- hand. hrurnmond C.iMle is a Upual 



exami'lr ition in winch the natural character .it tin- 



has enaNed three terraces to Iv formed upon the s- 

 with a splendid character of architecture and line garden 

 and the garden js most worthy <>i p\ial rvtue. and ot 

 unstinted admiration, because, though ihe thunders of cml 

 broil and Strife haw- passed over it, though attainder lias 

 shorn its o!d inhabitants of what they lovrd lost in the 



at Stobhall, and whose descendants, as Earls of Perth, 

 possessed it for some 250 years, followed by long torleiture. 



The seventeenth lentury garden at Imunmund Castle 

 was laid out elm iK by John hrummond. s. v .,n,l I .ul IVrth. 

 To him we attribute many beauties of tlr steep, imp 



his time, with its ^Icnious s. and ihu-lly tile 



formal garden N-low . with its ilowt-r tx-ds ruh r as a 



t in the summer, and Ivauti'ul with rv 

 in the winter, beds set off and relieved b> h-.\ and 

 Indies, cut and trained in quaint fashion, and l-\ line 

 i > presses and t.ire conileis. Ab<nit the year |6}O this i. 

 man was a, ti i^-d in improving his eMatrs and laying 



out the ground-, he ! to the title in ifui. and Jird 



in 1662. l*ou-las. in his " PctTMge ! S, i;.ind." says c.f him 

 that "he was a nobleman ot le.umng, probity, and iniegrit\, 

 of unshaken loyalty to the King. Ivnevoleiit to his friends, 

 prudent and economical in the management of his .ifi.uts. and 



THE HLANNtb CARtJtN FkOM THt TbkKACE. 



passion and zeal for a cause forlorn though modern infliu 

 have threatened it, it still remains -u-.uli i-t to the char.utt r 

 of its seventeenth century origin, and still maintains the 

 traditions of that age unmarred, w ith m my an addition to its 

 beauties, but not one to break the -pell. 



It is accordingly an appropriate thing to devote some 

 little space to the history of Drummond Castle and its former 

 is, before describing the character of its gardens. 

 Sir Malcolm hrummond. successor of many of the name, an 

 adherent of King Robert I., fought at Bannockburn, and for 

 good and faithful service received a grant of land in Perth- 

 shire. Anotlurr Malcolm Drummond was at Otterburn, 

 concerning which famous fight Sir Philip Sidney said that he 

 never heard the old song of !'<> \ and Douglas but he found 

 his heart moved more than with a trumpet. It was the first 

 Lord Drummond who, about the year 1491. built the castle 

 in Strathearn, on removing from the former seat of his family, 



just in all his dealings." Here must a tribute of admiration be 

 given to the taste and judgment of the second Earl of Perth, 

 who was instrumental in forming the garden, whuh remains as 

 a fine exemplar of his time. Like all his descendants. IK- was 

 a strong upholder of the Stuarts, and in 1641 he Joined the 

 association on behalf of Charles at Cumbernauld, and later on 



lined, with his s..n. Lord hrummond. in the sum of $,aao, 

 This son. afterwards the third harl. was tiken prisoner at 

 Philiphaugh in 1645, when Leslie defeat .-d Montr 



James, the fourth barl, Lord Chmcellor of Scotland, a 

 strong adherent of James II., resigning his estates and n 

 was allowed to depart to Hraiue, and died at St. (-rmains in 

 1716, having reteived from King James the titular title of 

 Duke of Perth. His son was with Janxs in the expedition to 

 Ireland, and took part in the rebellion of 171$, afterwards 

 being attainted, upon which the titles of bail of Perth and 

 Baron Drummond became dormant. The Scottish estates 



