SCOTTISH GARDENS 



HORTO - QVEM - AMAMVS - HANG SEDEM DONAVIMVS 

 MARY HANNAH - ANNE ALICE 



FILUE 



IOHANNIS ET - DOROTHE/E - MVRDOCH 

 MDCCCCV. 1 



And again : 



ILLE TERRARVM MIHI PRXETER - OMNES 

 ANGVLVS - RIDET. 2 



The sun-dial in the middle of the garden is also 

 inscribed with many legends, and bears on its base 

 a dedication to Mr. and Mrs. Burn-Murdoch " on 

 their golden wedding/' from their grandchildren, 

 Lorna, Dorothea, Ian, Marion, and Colin. 



It is no modern trait in the family, this pretty 

 taste for inscribing stones. During the four centuries 

 or thereby it has stood, the house of Gartincaber 

 has owned no other lord than a Murdoch, and the 

 dormer windows bear legends in relief ; on one, 

 NoscE-TEiPsvM 3 , surmounted by a thistle; on another 

 a tag from Juvenal : 



MORS SOLA FATETVR 

 QVANTVLA SINT HOMINVM CORPVSCVLA, 4 



under a man with a bent bow. 



" Mary, Hannah, Anne, Alice, daughters of John and Dorothy Murdoch, have 

 presented this seat to the garden which we love. 1905." Horto nobis dilecto had 

 been a more graceful rendering. 



'"This little corner pleases me better than all the world beside." 



Horace, Odes ii. 6. 



3 " Know thyself "the Attic yfifc <rea w6*. " Oh Athenians, your wisdom reaches 

 us across the centuries! We hear your murmured messages < Know thyself,' 

 Nothing in excess ! ' We who have travelled so far, and yet so little, we who 

 Are still scaling the heights you reached Athenians, we salute you!" 



The Diary of a Looker-on, by C. Lewis Hind. 



* " Death alone discloses how feeble are the bodies of men." Juvenal, Sat. x, 173. 



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