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for cleaning pencils), as it not only soon evaporates, but causes 

 colour to look dead and chalky ; whereas the varnish bears out 

 and hardens as it becomes older. My reason for proposing 

 varnish to be used with the letters only is, because damp is apt 

 to cause what is termed a chill, which would be visible on the 

 dark colour, but 7iot on the lohite. The best quality of the 

 colours in question is to be had at Messrs. Robertson and Mil- 

 ler's, 51. Long Acre, whose prices are, for flake white, per 

 bladder, weighing 5^ lb., Is.; ivory black, ditto. Is.; oil, per pint, 

 2s. ; copal varnish, per pint, 6s. Two shilling bottles of copal 

 would be sufficient for an immense quantity of lettering. 

 Fmc/ilet/, Nov. 11. 1836. 



Art. V. Notices of Gardens and Country Seats in Great Britain 

 and Ireland, supplementary to, or corrective of, the Notices given in 

 the " Encijclopcedia of Gardening." By various Contributors. 



Some of our readers having expressed surprise at our having noticed small 

 residences in our EncyclopcBclia of Gardening, while we omitted all notice of 

 larger ones ; and others having complained of inaccuracy in our statements, 

 we have determined on commencing the present article, and continuing it for 

 some time, so as to give such of our readers as wish to supply us with correc- 

 tions and additions an opportunity of doing so. As the article will always be 

 printed in a smaller type than that of the other original communications, it 

 will not interfere much with the usual matter of the Magazine. If those who 

 send us notices will, at the same time, send us views, ground plans, or sketches 

 of trees, or of any remarkable object on the residence of which they send us a 

 notice, we shall endeavour to have them neatly engraved, unless in cases where 

 the expense would be too great. 



SCOTLAND. 



The Park of Blairdrummond, near Stirling, the Residence of William Holm 

 Drianmond, Esq., is laid out in the English style : it lies on the south-west 

 bank of the river Teith, about six miles from Stirhng. To the south and east 

 of the house it has a beautiful level surface ; on the south-west is an artificial 

 lake, about 1000 yards in length, encompassing a beautiful wooded island ; 

 to the north and west of the house the ground is more elevated, and finely 

 undulated. Next to the house, on the north and west, is a fine grove of large 

 oaks, beeches, larches, Weymouth pines, &c. The walks in this grove com- 

 mand a fine view of the western extremity of the Ochil Hills, Abbey Craig, 

 Castle of Stirling, Craigforth, Campsie Hills, and several gentlemen's seats. 

 From the park and approaches, north-west of this, are views of Ben Lomond, 

 and some of the Grampian Hills, such as Ben Ledie, Ben Voirloch, and the 

 fine old ruin of Doune Castle. The extensive walks and shrubberies lie on 

 the north-west of the grove. The shrubberies, at the time they had been 

 planted, contained a first-rate collection of hardy shrubs and trees; some of 

 which are now very ornamental, and of great size. The garden and nursery 

 lie on the north-west of the shrubberies : the garden contains about 2 acres 

 and 3 roods, enclosed by a brick wall 13ft. high; and the side slips contain 

 about 2 acres. There are two peach houses, a vinery, a stove, and two ranges 

 of melon pits, erected in 1834, on a somewhat new principle, which you can 

 have an account of, at some future period, for your Magazine. The nursery 

 contains about an acre and a half. — James Drummond, Gardener. Blair- 

 drummond, July 7. 1836. 



