Plan of the Kitclien-Garden at Annat. 



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more injurious, or less protecting to tender fruit trees, than 

 such as run in straight hnes. On circular walls I have always 

 found the fruit and wood as early, and as well ripened, as the 

 same variety on the same aspect on straight-lined walls. Where 

 such walls form a parallelogram, 1 have always observed that 

 at and near the corners the wood was small, drawn, and un- 

 healthy ; the blossom scanty, and the fruit few, puny, and 

 insipid. Through the kind indulgence of one of the very best 

 of masters (the late Lieut. General R. Stuart, of Rait), I was 

 allowed, twenty years ago, to lay out Annat garden agreeably 

 to my own fancy, a plan of which I shall subjoin [Jig, 9.). 



The curve in the north wall admitted of similar curves in the 

 adjacent lines ; the south outside and inside walks and borders 

 are level across, rising very gently from the middle to the east 

 and west walls. From the inside of the interior border the 

 ground rises towards the north wall a foot in twelve. The wall- 

 borders and walks on the outsides of the west, north, and east 

 walls are also level across ; the banks which form the slip on 

 these sides, rise with a regular slope from the low walks, 

 which bound the wall-borders to the height of 14 ft., the upper 

 walk is thus on a level with the top of the garden wall. As 

 the garden is situate on a sloping bank about 1 30 ft. higher 

 than the adjacent low Carse of Gowrie, the upper walk on the 

 top of these banks forms a delightful promenade ; and to ren- 

 der it interesting to the lover of botany, a collection of herba- 

 ceous plants, arranged after the sexual system, commences at 

 the south side of the east outer gate, and is continued in the 



