586 Classical Garden of the Mason School, 



tower ; Monzle, and the large larches ; Culteque ; Abercarney 

 House and gardens : Millearn House, with its gardens and 

 greenhouses; Gask House, garden^ and large Spanish chestnut 

 and other trees; Balgowan House, parks, and large cedar of 

 Lebanon ; Methven Castle, garden, &c. ; Lyendoch Cottage 

 garden ; scenery on the river Amond, Bessy Bell's and Mary 

 Gray's graves ; Perth nurseries ; Hill of Kinnoul ; Hill of Mon- 

 crieff ; Moncrieff House and gardens ; Duplin Castle, garden, 

 and large trees. After leaving Duplin, I will cross the Earn 

 by the bridge of Forteviot to Invermay ; then along the south 

 side of the Earn to Duncrub ; Auchterarder House ; Strathallan 

 Castle ; Culdees Castle, and Drummond Castle ; from Drum- 

 mond Castle along the Crieff and Stirling road to Ardoch, and 

 then from Ardoch to Stirling, &c. &c. 



This route will, of course, occupy a series of letters ; but 

 having visited all the places above mentioned, and lived at, 

 and in the neighbourhood of, some of them, and having mea- 

 surements of a great many of the trees, and other notes re- 

 garding all or most of them, I shall, as the evenings are now 

 getting long, have ample leisure and opportunity to engage in 

 this delightful task. If you consider that my letters may be of 

 any benefit to any of your readers, and worthy of a place in the 

 Gardener's Magazine, their insertion will be ample compensation 

 for my labour. I will take notice of the habitats of some of the 

 most interesting of our Scottish plants as I go along. My 

 next, if well, will be a visit to Keir Gardens. 



Blair-Drummond Gardens, by Doune, Oct. 19. 1843. 



Art. V. A Classical Garden of the Mason School of Design, pre- 

 valent about the Middle of the last Century, exemplified in the Grounds 

 of Stoke Park, near Windsor, the Seat of John Penn, Esq. Com- 

 municated by Robert Osborn. 



[The following communication has been iii our possession since 1833; see 

 our Vol. for that year, p. 529. We owe many apologies to Mr. Osborn for 

 not having before published it. We have not engraved the very beautifully 

 drawn map which accompanied the MS., because, to reduce it so as to come 

 within our page, would render it of little use. We consider the description 

 of great interest, as showing the style of laying out flower-gardens, and orna- 

 menting them with statues, busts, inscriptions, &c., so strongly approved of 

 bv Mason the poet, and exemplified by him at Newnham-Courtnay, near 

 Oxford, between 1770 and 1780. The present possessor of Stoke Park is 

 Granville Penn, Esq., and under his direction the place has undergone some 

 alterations, which are decided improvements. At this time, 1843, it is in ex- 

 cellent keeping. 



In compliance with your request, I send you a little plan of Stoke Park 

 (drawn by my son William), the seat of J. Penn, Esq., grandson of the 

 celebrated Wm. Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and original proprietor 

 of that province ; but I am apprehensive that, being upon so small a scale, it 

 will be of little use to you. 



