SCOTTISH GAEDENS 



designing and executing which he has earned such 

 a high reputation. Flowers there were still, but not 

 in the luxuriance of former seasons, and the metal 

 work had nearly all been removed. In one respect 

 Malleny is a model for other mansions, especially in 

 Scotland, where modern architects have been allowed 

 too often to banish the flower-garden to an exor- 

 bitant distance from the dwelling-house. Here you 

 step from the ivy-grown house direct among the 

 borders, and all the fleeting phases of the season 

 may be enjoyed from the windows. Thus it should 

 ever be in any garden worthy of the name ; and 

 thus it seems to have struck Lord Cockburn, who, 

 writing in 1846, mentions Malleny as one of five 

 curious, old-style gardens remaining in Midlothian. 

 "They are all," he said, "sadly injured now. 

 Except Hutton, they were all small and of the same 

 character evergreen bushes, terraces, and carved 

 stones." 



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