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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



The gardens and pleasure-grounds extensive, complete, and 

 well managed. 



Duplin Castle near Perth; Earl of Kinnoul. A good 

 house, and well planted grounds. 



Dunkeld House, i\tl)unknh\; Puke of Athol. A large plain 

 house in a bottom, surrounded by hills and mountains, cele- 

 brated for their extensive plantations, especially of the larch, 

 and for their romantic walks, waterfalls, streams, and rocks. 

 Obvious defects of this place are, that there is no proper walk 

 or wood to make a tour of the whele, and that the walks on 

 the hill side, do not ascend in regular gradation, but are de- 

 sultory and deficient in grandeur. 



Blair House, near Blair; Duke of Athol. A genuine 

 Highland residence, chiefly remarkable for the extent of the 

 unrounding plantations which clothe many hundreds of acres 

 of lofty mountains and craggy steeps and lulls. 



X Blair Drummotul, near Stirling ; Drummond, Esq. 



Celebrated as being the residence where Lord Karnes dis- 

 played his taste in planting and improving in the latter half 

 of the last century. The evergreens planted at that time are 

 now singular ornaments to the grounds. 



X Tay mouth, near Kenmore ; Earl of Bredalbane. The 

 most magnificent residence in the county. The house a 

 spacious Gothic mansion, erected at different times, placed on 

 a lawn about a mile in breadth, between two mountains, 

 which open-to Loch Tay on one side, and the Tay river passes 

 within two furlongs of the house. The mountains, lawn, and 



7637. ANGUS, or FORFARSHIRE. A surface of 595,920 acres, consisting of mountains with exten- 

 sive and fertile valleys ; the former generally bearing good pasture, and the latter under aration. Mon- 

 trose and Arbroath have a few small market-gardens ; Brechin and Forfar have no market-garden ; but 

 many of the tradespeople cultivate spots of ground for their recreation ; and besides supplying their 

 own families, produce a sufficiency of culinary vegetables and small fruits to meet the demands of their 

 townsmen. It is estimated that upwards of 33,000 acres are covered with plantations. In aftertimes 

 this county will be celebrated as having given birth to the Dons, a family of botanists of superior order. 



the banks of the waters, are richly clothed with wood, through 

 which are led magnificent walks. Of the trees, the limes and 

 larches have attained to a great size, and there is an ave- 

 nue of the former 450 yards m length, scarcely equalled any 

 where. 



X Drummonil Castle, near Crief; Lord Gwydir. The 

 castle enlarged, and the grounds extended and highly im- 

 proved by the present owner, assisted by his ingenious steward, 

 Lewis Kennedy. 



Uchterty re, near Crief; Sir P. Murray. A finely wooded 

 place, greatly improved by the present owner ; the kitchen- 

 garden and hot-houses laid out by Nicol. 



Lundie House, near Dundee; Lord Duncan. An excellent 

 kitchen-garden, by Hay of Edinburgh. 



I'utleyjield, near Culross; Sir K. Preston. A romantic 

 residence, laid out from designs by Rcpton, whose son visited 

 this place about 1804. The principal feature deserving a 

 stranger's notice is the approach through a wooded glen. 



Gartmore, near Criet; Graham Esq. A fine old place, 



noted for its fine forests, old cedars from seeds brought from 

 Syria, and a good kitchen-garden by Nicol. 



Gleueaxles, r\ear Stirling; Sir R. Abercrombie. A house 

 in the mixed style of (Jothic and Grecian, of Adams, standing 

 in fineW varied grounds, well planted, and containing a fine 

 piece of water, by White. 



Castle Grey, near Perth; Earl Grey. A good house, by 

 Atkinson, in a delightful and well wooded situation. 



The Forfar Botanic Garden was founded by George Don, 

 a well known botanist, who added more plants to the British 

 Flora than any botanist of his time. The garden contains 

 little more than an acre; but embraces almost all kinds of 

 soil and situation, and in it were crowded together nearly all 

 the hardy herbaceous plants and shrubs known in Britain. 



There is also a small green-house, containing above 1000 

 different species. Don died in 1814 ; but the botanic garden is 

 still kept up. 



Castle Glammis, near Glammis ; Earl of Strathmore. A 

 very ancient building, renovated by Inigo Jones; the grounds 

 in the ancient style, and containing some fine old trees. 



7638. KINCARDINESHIRE. A surface of 243,444 acres, mountainous towards the north, but more 

 level and fertile on the south-east. 



Brodie House, at Brodie; Alexander Brodie, Esq. F. L. S. 

 A fine old place, much improved, and planted, by the present 



I proprietor ; and containing a good botanic garden, and some 



noble avenues. 



7639. ABERDEENSHIRE A surface of 718,806 acres, generally flat, but varied by knolls, wavy 

 ridges, and gentle inequalities, formerly moory and bleak, but now extensively planted. It is said, that 

 there is scarcely a gentleman in the county who has an estate of 100/. a year who has not planted some 

 hundred thousands of trees, and that there is above 50,000 acres in the county covered with artificial plant- 

 ations. There are a number of nurseries round Aberdeen noted for raising seedlings, many of which are 

 sent to the south of Scotland and to England. 



The Aberdeen Nursery, Messrs. Reid. An old and resne 

 able establishment chiefly devoted to the culture of forest 

 trees, and especially I 



thorns. The father of the present occupier, who is also pro- 

 prietor of the soil (twelve acres), was gardener to Sir Archibald 



seedlings of Scotch pine, larch fir, and 

 iccupi 

 gardei 

 Grant of Monymusk, the greatest planter in Scotland. 



Moss's Nursery, a newly established ooncern, carried on 

 with great spirit. There are various other nurseries. 



Market-Gardens These are numerous, both for the supply 



of the town and shipping. Almost the entire parish of Old 

 Machar is laid out in this wav, and occupied by several 

 hundred industrious men. At Peterhead there are also gar- 

 dens for growing vegetables for the shipping of that place. 



Orchards There is an extensive one at Fitfour, containing 



ten acres, including the ruins of the ancient abbey of Deer 

 and its gardens ; one of five acres at Auchterie, and some in a 

 neglected state between Keneand Monymusk. 



Crathes, near A berdeen. Sir R. Burnet, Bart. An ex- 

 cellent kitchen -garden in the old style, with magnificent holly 



hedges, abundance of prolific fruit-trees, and venerable exotic 

 shrubs. 



Monymusk, at Monymusk; Sir A. Grant, Remarkable 

 for its extensive plantations, the late proprietor having planted 

 about fifty millions of trees ; some of which, at the time ot 

 his death, were near one hundred feet high, and above six feet 

 in circumference. The gardens and pleasure-grounds are 

 beautiful and extensive. 



Invercauld House, near Invercauld ; Farquharson, 



Esq. Famous for its pine-forests, the timber of which equals 

 that of Norway. 



Ulaines Castle, near Slaines ; Earl of Errol. Situated on 

 the margin of the sea, with few trees around, but with a good 

 kitchen-garden. 



Den of Rnbislan', near Aberdeen; Professor Davison. A 

 romantic villa, the gardens forming terraces cut out of granite 

 rock, watered by a stream, near which grow naturally many 

 rare plants, and among others, Linniea borealis. The whole 

 kept in the highest order and neatness. 



7640. BANFSHTRE. A surface of 649,600 acres; hilly and mountainous, with fertile valleys well 

 cultivated. There are some good market-gardens at Banf. 



X Duff House, near Duff; Earl of Fife. A magnificent 

 quadrangular building, by Adams, in a park 15 miles in cir- 

 cumference, chiefly laid out by the late Mr. White. On the 

 ether parts of the estate more trees have been planted than on 

 any property in the country 



Gordon Castle, near Gordon; Duke of Gordon. A large 



house ; the grounds celebrated for their fine woods, extensive 

 gardens, and romantic walks. 



Cidlen House, near Cullen ; Earl of Findlater. Remark- 

 able for its fine old woods : the late earl being one of the 

 earliest and most extensive planters in the country. 



7641. MORAYSHIRE. A surface 42 miles long, by 20 miles broad; great part hilly or mountainous, 

 with extensive pine- forests ; but with a considerable tract only gently varied and well cultivated. There 

 is a market-garden at Elgin, in which onions are chiefly grown for the parishioners, and two small 

 orchards : one at Logie, formed in 1786, and the other at Pitgaveny, formed in 1798. 



7642. NAIRNSHI RE A surface 17 miles long, by 10 miles broad ; the greater part level and fertile. 



7643. CROMARTYSHIRE. A peninsular surface of 68,480 acres; chiefly an elevated tract of heath, 

 but undergoing rapid improvement by the agriculturist. 



7644. CAITHNESS. A surface of 395,680 acres ; generally flat ; described by Pennant as an immense 

 morass, with some fertile spots. From the materials which compose this morass, it appears to have been 

 formerly full of wood ; but recent attempts to raise plantations have not been very successful. There is 

 a market-garden at Thurso of seven acres ; a remarkable circumstance, as there are none in the counties 

 of Cromarty, Ross, or Sutherland. 



Thurso Castle, near Thurso; Sir J. Sinclair. Chiefly 

 remarkable for agricultural improvements, but displaying also 



some plantations, and a kitchen-garden, and many i 

 but abortive attempts at amelioration. 



7645. The ORKNEY and SHETLAND ISLES contain nothing that we have heard of worthy of 

 notice in the way of gardening. Such a thing as an orchard is unknown in these islands. In Orkney, 

 Neill observes (Gen. Rep. sect. ii. p. 180.), a few apples are produced on wall-trees; in Shetland still fewer, 

 and that only in particularly good seasons. 



7646. SUTHERLANDSHIRE A mountainous uncultivated surface of 1,478,400 acres; about half 

 of which is the property of tbe Marquis of Stafford, who has enlarged the farms, built new farmeries, 



