SMEATON-HEPBURN l 



HADDINGTONSHIRE 



ME ATON- HEPBURN is delightfully 

 situated on the river Tyne in the most 

 fertile champaign of all Scotland the 

 seaward portion of the county of Had- 

 dington. The remarkable collection of 

 trees, shrubs, and flowering herbs which adorns the 

 grounds owes it affluence to the enthusiasm of two 

 generations of amateurs, for to the love of trees which 

 inspired the late Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, his son 

 and successor Sir Archibald has added a keen intelli- 

 gence in the cultivation of herbaceous and alpine 

 plants. The herbaceous plants occupy borders in the 

 old-fashioned walled garden ; where also is a teeming 

 and interesting nursery of that most perplexing, yet 

 fascinating race, the Saxifrages. J3. Mizabethce and 

 apiculata are particularly luxuriant, having overflowed 

 in verdant volume the stone compartments assigned to 



1 Owing to a severe illness in the spring of 1908, Miss Wilson unfortunately 

 was prevented from visiting Smeaton-Hepburn in order to make a drawing in the 

 garden there. Notwithstanding the consequent absence of a plate, I have thought 

 that a few notes about this fine collection of shrubs and plants may be not with- 

 out interest. 



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