382 Report of Meetings for 1880. By J. Hardy. 



It must have been a glorious sight, the seventeen Tweedies 

 mounted on white horses with long tails, streaming down 

 the green steeps of Tinnies hill in full pursuit of the mocking 

 prince and his companion, who took the road up Tweedside to 

 the royal hunting ground near the head of the river. Tinnies 

 Castle was destroyed by an order of James VI., issued from 

 Peebles, 13th July 1592. At that time James Stewart, probably 

 a relation of Bothwell, resided there. After passing Tinnies 

 Castle on the same side of the road, nearer Dawyck, is pointed 

 out a small knoll called the Gallows Law ; and it is said that 

 an apparatus such as the name implies, at one time stood on this 

 hill for the execution of culprits. 



The fir-sprouts and the beech hedges had been nipped down 

 in the low ground here by June frosts. I had observed this also 

 at Lougformacus. The beeches were making an effort to recruit 

 by pushing forth new leaves. 



Having reached Dawyck, I now adopt Mr Douglas's narrative, 

 and then resume my own comments. The lands of Dawyck 

 belonged from time immemorial to the Veitches. This family 

 spent a great deal of money in the public service, were never 

 repaid, fell into a state of indebtedness, and had to see these 

 lands pass from them in the beginning of the eighteenth century. 

 The property was acquired by the Naesmyths, also an old 

 Peeblesshire family, and nearly related to the Veitches ; re- 

 presented at present by Sir James Naesmyth, Bart., whose 

 great-grandfather, the second baronet, was a distinguished 

 botanist, and a pupil of Linnaeus, and a skilled landscape gar- 

 dener and tree-planter. In the grounds of Dawyck the members 

 of the Club spent an hour which will be long remembered b} r 

 them. The banks of the Scrape Burn, which flows through the 

 policy, have been made into a huge shrubbery, and planted with 

 every variety of ornamental tree that will thrive in Scotland. 

 The place is a triumph of landscape gardening ; walks have been 

 made and bridges built wherever it was thought that the 

 romantic character of the place would be displayed to the best 

 advantage, and all these are kept in perfect order with the most 

 scrupulous care. The collection of trees and shrubs is extensive 

 and valuable, and is in an extraordinarily health}' state, an 

 Araucaria imhricata having attained a veiy large size, considering 

 the height above sea level at which it is growing. What most 

 attracted notice and excited admiration was Spiresa an'ocfoh'a, 



