KELLIE CASTLE 



FIFE 



INDOUBTEDLY there is more difficulty 

 in fixing upon representative gardens 

 from the east of Scotland than from 

 the west, arising, not from paucity of 

 1 good subjects, but from their greater fre- 

 quency. Not that the horticulture of the west is 

 inferior to that of the east ; but, as a rule, families 

 resident in the eastern counties have shown more 

 constancy for old walls, and a more conservative 

 sentiment in adapting old houses to modern require- 

 ments, than those in the west have done. This was 

 owing partly to the better building material in 

 Lothian, Fife and Aberdeen, and partly to the 

 superior affluence of those districts as compared with 

 the western shires previous to the development of 

 mineral resources. There are notable exceptions, of 

 course, some of which, such as Kelburne and 

 Dalzell, have been assigned a place in this collection ; 

 but, on the whole, domestic architecture in the west 

 has suffered far more sweeping changes than it 

 has in the eastward counties. 



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