214 ANDREW HERON AND HIS KAINSFOLK. 
steep, and the waters rapid, and except where the house is 
built, within thirty yards of the highest part of the bank at 
Bargally, there is little available land for cultivation. From 
a botanist’s point of view or the agriculturist’s the place is 
a very favourable one, as it is well sheltered from the north 
and east and well open to the south. 
In a privately printed book on the Rogers family, my 
cousin, Julian Rogers, thus describes the character of Andrew 
Heron :_—_11‘* He was a born botanist and a man of refined 
and elegant tastes, but, unfortunately for his future happiness, 
he had all the weaknesses which generally accompany the 
eesthetic temperament. He was the creature of his impulses, 
unrestrained by consideration of prudence in the indulgence 
of his hobbies, and totally devoid of capacity for the manage- 
ment of his own affairs, though ready enough to advise otheis. 
Add to this a singular guilelessness of disposition and a mind 
easily dominated by a will stronger than his own, and what 
follows will not be difficult to understand.’’ It must be con- 
fessed that he showed little of the business acumen which 
characterised many of his ancestors or even near relations. 
He had expectations from his father, but even before his 
father’s death he began planting his garden and building his 
new house on a scale far beyond his means, with the not un- 
natural result that in the latter part of his life he was in sore 
straits for money and involved himself in difficulties which 
resulted in litigation after his death and the impoverishment 
of his branch of the family. 
Andrew Heron moved into Bargally, as we have seen, 
on May 15th, 1691, but the then existing house being small 
and inconvenient, he only remained there for the summer. 
Records‘ say he built the centre portion of the present house 
in 1695 (or 1694), the architect being a ‘‘ Mr Hawkins, an 
Englishman ;’’ but before even he had made a decent house 
for his wife and children he began his garden, for in 1693 he 
built the ‘‘ side of the close where the stables are,’’ and in 
1695 the “‘ great orchard dyke ”’ or wall garden, as well as 
the entry gate. In the same year he began to stock his garden 
“with an excellent collection of fruit,’’? doubtless the first 
step of his horticultural enterprise. His father dying in this 
