52 GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 



a flower garden, an orchard, and kitchen garden; 

 the house and gardens contain between nine and ten 

 acres. 



Palace of Penmure. 



In the middle of a great wood. You go up to the 

 house through an avenue cut through the wood, of 

 half-a-mile in length, and 150 feet broad, which gives 

 you a view of the house at once ; and on each side of 

 this avenue is a fine hedge, which reaches the 

 branches of the trees of the wood ; at the end of this 

 avenue is a large circular outer court for coaches to 

 turn in, and the inner court is balustraded with iron 

 on each side, which gives you a view of the delicious 

 gardens which go quite round the house, and are very 

 well kept, with a great variety of evergreens and grass 

 plots, covered walks, and labyrinths : from these 

 gardens there are eight or nine vistas cut through the 

 wood, with balustrades of iron at every vista, and all 

 the doors of iron. 



Castle Gordon. 



Fine gardens, and a very spacious deer park. 



Palace of Glamis. 



As you approach, it strikes you with awe and 



