A FRAGMENT. — E. V. B. 
N answer to your letter asking “What is the difference Climate 
| between an English and a Scotch garden?” I think there is and Soil 
none, save perhaps the difference that naturally follows where of Scotland 
there is a great difference of climate, and where the soil also 
differs. As a rule a garden in Scotland, in the North especially, 
endures far severer cold, and receives a far larger amount of 
moisture from more frequent rains, while the sun—when it 
shines—is fully as powerful as in the South. 
In gardens, I believe, as in the open country, the granite 
in some way mixes freely with the soil, and it is this that so 
strongly affects the colour and encourages the vigorous growth 
of flowers of the garden and the field in Scotland. 
I would fain endeavour to describe one, if one only, of her 
more famous gardens. But I have seen none of them for so 
many years that I should hardly venture to attempt it. The 
exquisite brilliancy of the St Andrew’s Cross of the gardens of 
Drummond Castle seen from the upper terrace—visions of 
Dunkeld with its green miles of turf and wild foaming burn, 
and the little temple or summer-house built upon a bridge mid- 
way across, with its dizzy ceiling of mirrors so contrived that, 
looking up, one saw the whirl of eddying waters above one’s 
head, while half-dazed with the rattling roar underfoot; and 
then the Minster garden of the Macintosh at Craigmore in 
Inverness — as strange as it is beautiful, being laid out 
in the form of the Plan of the Cathedral of York, pre- 
cisely on the same lines according to measurement. Green 
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