COCKER'S NURSERY 



ABERDEEN 



ASSING from Raeden House over the 

 hill-top known as the Cocket Hat, 

 one comes upon a wide extent of 

 nursery ground ; and, forasmuch as our 

 series of Scottish garden types would 

 not be complete without a sample of commercial 

 horticulture, Miss Wilson has chosen a corner of this 

 ground called Honey Braes, which forms a fitting 

 subject for her art. The day may come when this 

 drawing may have an interest more than aesthetic ; for 

 already this part of the nurseries has been marked 

 off in building plots, and the red-roofed house is 

 doomed to disappear at no distant date. It was under 

 these red tiles that Mrs. Byron (nee Catherine Gordon 

 of Gight) lived with her son George, whom she 

 described to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Leigh, as being 

 "very well and really a charming boy" in 1791. 

 Seven years later the " charming boy " succeeded his 

 great-uncle, the " wicked Lord Byron/' as sixth Lord 

 Byron, with such results upon English literature as 

 we wot of. It suggests curious commentary upon 



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