SCOTTISH GAEDENS 



apar t and you may get a magnificent tree like the 

 one at Rosanna, co. Wicklow, which is 90 feet high, 

 loftier than any of the species in its native Southern 

 Europe, so freely does it respond to the genial 

 influences of the west. 



The task of making a selection of garden scenes 

 in Scotland has been one of much perplexity. In 

 order to make it representative of all styles arid 

 scales, many famous and beautiful places have been 

 passed by. Moreover, the summer of 1907 was the 

 wettest and coldest we have had for thirty years ; 

 which frustrated many attempts to portray gardens 

 in the remoter parts of the country. Had it been 

 Miss Wilson's lot to have executed her task during 

 the summer of 1908, not only would the work have 

 been more agreeable but it would have had more 

 satisfactory results. The purpose of artist and author 

 has been to present specimens of gardens of every 

 degree modest as well as majestic, formal as well 

 as free whereby the possessor of the humblest plot 

 of ground may be stimulated to beautify it with as 

 fair hope of proportionate success as the lord of 

 thousands of acres. 



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