SCOTTISH GARDENS 



her flowers have been buried under tons of terraces, 

 stone-built, and scaled by exorbitant stairways, 

 severing us for ever from the footprints of bygone 

 generations. 



A garden has been created in the grandiose 

 style of the early Victorian era the age when 

 Wyatt and Paxton designed parks and palaces, and 

 Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton peopled them with 

 appropriate characters. The centuries will touch 

 and retouch these terraces into charm ; as yet, the 

 elaborate stone-work has weathered too few winters 

 gathered too little moss to gratify the eye ; while 

 shadeless gravel walks, wide enough to admit a 

 battalion of grenadiers in column of half-companies, 

 make one sigh for 



Les sentiers ombreux 

 Oil s'egarent les amoureux. 



A little group of blue hyacinths have had the 

 temerity to establish themselves at the foot of one 

 of the great terrace stairs pretty wildings, seeming 

 to dread detection and expulsion, yet giving one the 

 same agreeable thrill that is conveyed by a nod 

 of recognition in a crowded assembly of strangers. 



Where the masonry ceases, clipped yew hedges 

 begin hundreds of yards of them, with far-spread, 

 intricate designs in clipped box. Altogether the 

 leafage submitted to the shears in each season 

 must be measured in acres. One is thankful that 

 a noble arbutus near the range of vine-houses, has 

 escaped the tonsure. It is about 22 feet in height 



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