SCOTTISH GAEDENS 



Primula farinosa making a miniature grove of rosy 

 bloom, Ramondia pyrenaica and Nathalice, flowering 

 profusely, but inclined to gasp for cooler shade. Pros- 

 trate phloxes, Arenaria and encrusted saxifrages 

 peopled the slopes in lavish abundance. The charming 

 Chatham Islands sorrel, Oxalis enneaphylla, had just 

 opened one or two of its milky blossoms, and the time 

 of Dianthus and Campanulce was at hand when a fresh 

 chord of colour would be struck. 



Near the mansion house a fine deodar, 70 or 80 

 years old, stands in sisterly proximity to Cupressus 

 macrocarpa from the opposite hemisphere. They have 

 been of mutual benefit to each other by encouraging 

 upward growth, and so preventing that podgy, lateral 

 spread which is so destructive of the true character 

 of most conifers. When will landscape gardeners 

 learn that fine park timber cannot be had without 

 submitting it first to forest discipline ? 



A splendid bush of Garrya ellyptica stands on the 

 lawn before the house. It measures 63 feet in cir- 

 cumference, and is the growth of 47 years, for it was 

 killed to the ground in the winter of 1861. 



In crossing the park to the lake, one cannot fail 

 to be charmed by the clouds of poet's narcissus 

 springing from the turf in all directions. Never have 

 I seen such a display; they have run abroad in 

 millions. Perhaps there is no other flower which 

 unites purity of colour so completely with simple 

 grace of form. Was this, think you, the species 

 whereof Mahomet spoke when he said "Let him 



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