GARTINCABEK 



PERTHSHIRE 



|HE whole plan and purpose of this 

 book being to illustrate types of Scot- 

 tish horticulture, the grandiose and 

 elaborate have received no preference 

 over the unpretending and simple. 

 Any space of Scottish soil, be its dimensions cal- 

 culable in roods or in acres, will serve our turn, 

 so that it be an abode of flowers well tended, or 

 at least, unspoilt, by its owner. 



Simple, indeed, is the garden design at Gartin- 

 caber a plain rectangle sloping pleasantly to the 

 sun ; at the upper-end a sixteenth century tower, 

 with nineteenth century additions naively contrived ; 

 at the lower-end a clear pool, not ample enough 

 to aspire to the title of "loch," yet, shadowed by 

 dark firs on the far side, too comely to bear the 

 common Scottish term "a stank/' This walled 

 enclosure is laid out in the old manner, subdivided 

 by crossed paths, with a sun-dial at the crossing ; 

 kitchen herbs and small fruits in the four quarters, 



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