THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



MARCH, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Recollections of a Gardening Tour in the North of England 

 and Part of Scotland, made from June 22. to September 30. 1841. 

 By the Conductor. 



{Continued from p. 55. ) 



Garscube, Sir Archibald, Campbell, Bart. — Imagine a broad 

 extensive basin of park scenery, bounded on two sides by irre- 

 gular banks finely wooded, and the two ends lost by the banks 

 apparently closing on a noble river with a rocky bottom and 

 sides. Such is the idea that we formed of Garscube, when first 

 we emerged from the fine old wood which covers an approach 

 conducted down one of the steep banks. The effect is strik- 

 ing, from the surface of the ground, and the manner in which 

 it is entered from the public road. In most places the entrance 

 is at right angles to the road, and the approach road within 

 proceeds on a level surface, and for some distance, at least, in a 

 line deviating very little from a perpendicular to the public road ; 

 but here the entrance is oblique to the public road, and turns 

 close to the right, the surface rapidly descending through an 

 umbrageous and scattered wood, with beautiful glades of turf, 

 which at once gives rise to a train of ideas as to the cause of so 

 remarkable a deviation from the normal arrangement in such 

 matters. After turning to the right, and while the imagination 

 is still at work, we are whirled down for a considerable distance, 

 till, at the base of the slope, we emerge into a beautifully undu- 

 lated park, containing a splendid river, close to which we see 

 the house, in the domestic Gothic style of Mr. Burns. Having 

 crossed a handsome and well placed bridge, we arrive at the 

 porch, and soon enter the house by one step ; but it struck us at 

 the time that three steps would have given more dignity to the 

 views from the apartments within, as well as the idea of a greater 

 degree of security from damp to the stranger entering from with- 

 out. The apartments seemed well arranged ; and the conservatory 

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