SCOTTISH GARDENS 



The series of Scottish garden types would be far 

 from complete if it did not include a town garden, 

 and certain it is that we Scots owe much gratitude 

 to the municipal rulers of our metropolis for the 

 admirable manner in which the ground along the south 

 side of Princes Street is beautified. Miss Wilson's 

 view is taken in the eastern garden, between the 

 Doric temple on the Mound, upon which John 

 Ruskin erewhile discharged the fluent vials of his 

 wrath, and the great monument which, perhaps, owes 

 its magnificence even more to the degree in which Sir 

 Walter Scott's personal character endeared him to 

 his countrymen as a man than to their recognition 

 of his accomplishment as a poet. Adam Black, 

 founder of the well-known firm of publishers, un- 

 doubtedly deserved well of his fellow-citizens, for he 

 was twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and worthily 

 represented that city in Parliament ; but when 

 they resolved to commemorate him they acted some- 

 what unkindly in erecting his statue in such near 

 proximity to the canopy which soars over the homely 

 figure of "the Shirra," and practically eclipses the 

 lesser monument. 



Impressively beautiful as she is in a degree beyond 

 any other city in the British Isles, Edinburgh might 

 have become still more so had men foreseen what 

 modern methods of sanitation have rendered possible. 

 When the city wall was razed after the middle of 

 the eighteenth century, before the New Town had 

 come into existence, the hollow between the Old 



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