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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE: 
(DECEMBER 8, 1874, 
for where I thought of piecing x the wild Hyacinths 
or Blu ee à will come vai nd maké the 
all oet 
Mrs. Gatty’s beautiful 
book o ials sh p to. They 
are of two sorts—the mottoes that warn, and the 
t that conso “Th ht cometh,’ or 
“ Pereunt et imputantur,” d examples of 
the one ; “ 
cree lucem spero,” are the best instances of the 
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ov. 28.—We wake to find snow all thick upon 
the seh, over lawn and flower-bed, and the chil- 
dren are out beine rolling up huge snowballs on 
=. ane Thi pete best thia ponibio | "i 
n, for apan ‘ain ready had a night or tw 
ak ona which killed all 3 Contd reach of our here 
baceous pl ast delights aae nipped 
by ee cold,” ’ as in the patt en i of oon n Milnes’ 
“Old orial Hall,” and the D ablias and the 
Fuchsias wèté all shrivelled into Brown etl 
o more a3 trees 
in the orchard. lanted our bulbs and 
sowed our autumn annuals “dec tee A gardenin af É 
ith the Némo bed of last 
Y 
e Saponaria, blue 
Myosotis, pink Silene, and many coloured Sweet 
Pe 
ate en, again, at the end of the grass walk, where it 
up against the hedge of the croft, I am fixi 
Biched trelliswork of wire, with a wi inside, 
and over it I me train and trail the broad leaves tes 
lochia and the soarlet blossoms of the 
course at rest ; but in = are 
Rom s, now G Fea for the house, and pots 
of Polania Racists will be also ready within a 
Ww 
eek, 
The porch of the house is Ta on either side with 
nthemums, and the fine glossy — 
e to the fauide restini 
ow I bring tidak notes to an end aim 
to show how interest and pleasure ma 
out of a garden — 
no great liahces in eas way of glass, n 
sa Ni in the ~~ a Pyr 
reclaim for our English 
garden araor flowers eja h Shakspeare and 
Milton, and Marvell and Cowley loved. They have 
too long ia aa m seira wers, whose only 
~ie of colour, rtain evenness ~ 
grow he ordinary bedde d J atden of to-day is 
Biferior to the Elizabethan gardens of old, as all gatletts 
en ce occa anwhile w 
can only do what best we can, and when all else fails; 
ike Candide, ‘* Il faut cultiver notre 
pee 00 Ibid a hearty farewell to those readers, 
who for Taoa have the fortunes, ye 
shared with me the hopes, of a year in a Lancas 
garden. Æ, 
FLOORS CASTLE AND PARK, 
NEAR the north bank of the River Tweed, not far 
from its fain with the Teviot, and about a mile 
from the town of sens is ae Castle, the pribcipal 
residence of the D chess of at ane 
It was about the middle m the seventeenth cen 
Robert Ker the first Earl of Roxbar she, trate 
the famil ily seat aint cn 
and a great advocate of the union with England, 
The designs wes nas by Sir John ya, an 
Lay seule tist me 
good c who was the architect ot "paren 
great edifices “including Castle Howard in Yorkshire, 
en nial lace, me. face Castle. ‘His ma of 
archite I 38 
for his ee HON == 
t Lie heavy on him, earth, for he 
Laid many a heavy load on thee ; 
but Floors Sons | is elegant in appearance, and, with 
p made little more Tep thirty years since, 
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pieces and si i Oak, and at the 
west end is a alae ne “window, the recess of which is 
replaces 
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thy waves since time was bo 
ad only h 
Nor started at the bugle horn, 
Farther to the eastward, B ha mii 
| oe is anne town aon els 
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pt. 
kin which are visible 
| over their whale length from he neighbourhood d 
Wooler on the east to the pre of distant Liddes 
dale in the south-west. It i rare com bination of 
bentty, romance, | and fertility, aad one is reminded of 
Sir Walter Scott’s words, ‘‘ The modern 
` Titania to dwell in, or any other 
their acy: might love scenery, of which the majesty 
and € e beauty mapi the mind with a sein 
awe mingled with pleas 
ntations have ~~ so arranged as to afford) 
s a clum e magnificent 
aks, 
them a déit forest Rf Beech and Oak and oh a 
ment, in ar some hundreds of guests ean be easily 
accommod 
The oak is is of Petre extent ook en bounded along 
its southern fron the Tweed, while a 
massive wall, 15 om high, kiris. thé Tweed close to 
the town of Kelso, making a sweep to the northward 
em al ty asso- 
ciation, and from the pa of. the Castle e prospect 
is surpassi ingly fch and peta resque, In the imme: 
diatë ay ae s the green lawn, dotted with claitips 
of which have a historic interest. 
t p of an old tree, 
carefully enclosed, wh ks the spot where King 
James 1I. of Scotland was killed by the bursting of his 
own cannon when eging Roxburgh Castle, 
er wrth Mir ing gracefully between it 
is eee Beyond it is the site of 
Roxburgh, ar 3 the first four burghs of Sc a 
of which not a stone now remains, Ona 
posh with the Enega on one side and the evict 
on the other, . are the h Castle, once 
a \ Secs ones royal ri haere gs 
l e 
: ein ? ‘sept ia 
by Jobn, beh eeh who had in 17 07 be 
of fis 707 been created 
ips 
xburghe, onè of the most accom- 
of his time, a public-spirited noblemait, 
of grey ston Pipe a Hage overshad 
by ancient ‘Ash trees, the words of Sir Walter Scott 
come almost unbidden to our lips— 
"Sweet Teviot, on ‘= silver tide 
iring ba és blaze no mote ; 
No Tong f steel-clad y warriors ridë 
owed shore ; 
i windst, by dale or hill, 
, all is is still, 
FIG, 140,—FLOORS CASTLE; PRINCIPAL FRONT, 
stretches for a jong distance, the ideid og 
pring aipalig of larg of la RE- fonn Yews. Along! 
of Rhododendrots 5, 
ae, en ag ee and 
ental, Mr. H. ‘Knig! hi 
features abo 
from the Castle, right Pepou a a 
of the cael -room, Bg 
On the north side of i 
trées, ks Plies ng be feet ia 
