48 Domestic Notices : — Scotland. 



on one vine, and within very little more than 1 ft. of each other. — John 

 Hines. Ipsivich, Oct. 20. 1834. 



The largest Gooseberries grown in Lancashire, in ISS^, were as follow: — 

 Reds: Wonderful, 27dwts. 8grs.; Lion, 26dwts. 9grs.,- Companion, 26dwts.; 

 Briton 25 dwts. 4grs.,- London, 24 dwts. 17grs.; Atlas, 23dwts. 15grs. 

 Yelknus: Duckwing, 24 dwts.; Gunner, 23 dwts. llgrs.; Bunker's Hill, 

 23 dwts. T grs. ; Teaser, 23 dwts ; Leader, 23dwts.; Twister, 21 dwts. 12grs.; 

 China orange, 21 dwts. 10 grs. Greens: Providence, 25 dwts. 9grs. ; Pea- 

 cock, 24 dwts. ; Overall, 22 dwts. 3 grs.; Troubler, 21 dwts. 17 grs.; Thumper, 



21 dwts. 11 grs.; Angler, 20 dwts. 19 grs.; Bumper, 20 dwts. 17 grs. Whites: 

 Eagle, 25 dwts. 22 grs. ; Lily of the valley, 23 dwts. 18 grs. ; Fleur-de-lis, 



22 dwts. 23 grs. ; Moreton lass, 22 dwts. 1.3 grs. ; Tally ho, 22 dwts.; Dela- 

 mere, 21 dwts. 22 grs.; La Valentine, 21 dwts. 9 grs. The Seedlings are few 

 this year : 6 reds, 4 whites, 3 greens, and 1 yellow ; the weights of none of 

 which are very great. Mr. J. Bratterton had a seedling at Nantwich show, 

 July 24., which weighed 26 dwts. 4 grs. — AI. Saul. Sulyard Street, Lancaster^ 

 Nov. 5. 1834. 



The Scarlet Trefoil ( rrifolium incarnatum), which we first mentioned in 

 this Magazine, in 1829, and which we have subsequently noticed as in cul- 

 tivation in the neighbourhood of Woking, Kingston, and on the late Duke of 

 Gloucester's farm at Bagshot, we are informed, by the Rev. Matthew Harrison, 

 is extensively cultivated, and much approved of, in the neighbourhood of 

 Basingstoke. " Cattle are extremely fond of it ; farm horses, during their 

 spring work, may be kept in the highest condition upon it ; and, after afford- 

 ing abundant feed, the land may be prepared in time for turnips or barley." — 

 Mattheiv Harrison. Church Oakley, near Basingstoke, Oct. 10. 1834. 



SCOTLAND. 



JSionymusk, in Aberdeenshire, the Property of the Grant Family. — The ac- 

 companying extracts, which I made from original papers preserved at Mony- 

 musk, in Aberdeenshire, the residence of Robert Grant, Esq. (a v/orthy 

 descendant of one of the first and most active improvers of that part of Scot- 

 land), showing the state of the district in the early part of the eighteenth 

 century, may be interesting ; especially ''to those of )'our readers who know 

 what a striking contrast to the following account is presented by the present 

 impi'oved and flourishing condition of that part of the country. 



Extracted from a commonplace book of the first Sir Archibald Grant, of 

 Monymusk, in Aberdeenshire. — In 1715, Sir Archibald says, " by the in- 

 dulgence of a very worthy fatlier," he was allowed, though then very young, 

 to begin to inclose and plant and provide and prepare nurseries. " At that 

 time, there was not one acre upon the whole estate inclosed, nor any timber 

 upon it, but a few elm, sycamore, and ash, about a small kitchen-garden ad- 

 joining to the house, and some straggling trees at some of the farmyards, with 

 a small copse wood, not inclosed, and dwarfish, and broused by sheep and 

 cattle. All the farms ill disposed, and mixed, different persons having alter- 

 nate ridges ; not one wheel carriage on the estate, nor, indeed, any one road 

 that would allow it. The house was an old castle with battlements, and six 

 different roofs of various heights and directions, confusedly and inconveniently 

 combined, and all rotten ; with two wings, more modern, of two stories only, 

 the half of windows of the higher rising above the roofs ; with granaries, 

 stables, and houses for all cattle and all the vermine attending them close 

 adjoining ; and with the heath and muire reaching in angles or goushets [gussets, 

 or gores] to the gates ; and much heath near, and what land near was in cul- 

 ture, belonged to the farms, by which their cattle and dung were always at 

 the door ; the whole land rugged and uneven, and full of stones, many of 

 them very large; and all the ridges crooked in shape of an S, and very high, 

 and full of noxious v/eeds, and poor, being worn out by culture without 



