54 GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 



Balgony. 



Another seat of the Earl of Leveris, whose 

 gardens and park are very spacious. 



Palace of Lesly. 



There is a noble parterre to the east, cut out into 

 green slopes, adorned with evergreens, that reacheth 

 to the point where the two rivers meet, and from this 

 parterre is a long terrace walk, and under it five 

 several terraces, to which you descend by stately stairs 

 to another square garden by the river-side, with a 

 waterwork in the middle. 



Alloway. 



The gardens consist of forty-two acres, and the 

 wood, with vistas cut through it, of 150 acres. On the 

 right of the area is a spacious garden with a fine 

 terrace and bowling-green, adorned with the largest 

 evergreens you can see anywhere. To the south is the 

 parterre, spacious, and finely adorned with statues and 

 vases ; and from this parterre to the River Forth runs 

 a fine terrace, or avenue, from whence, and from the 

 parterre, you have thirty-two different vistas, each 

 ending on some remarkable seat or mountain : one of 

 them shews you Stirling Castle at four miles distance ; 

 another, the Palace of Elphinstone, on the other side 



