Introduction. 



xli. 



that the idea thus admi- 

 rably set on foot should 

 not have been imitated 

 or developed since. The 

 pleasure garden is ob- 

 long, and has an area of 

 rather more than half 

 an acre. Three of the 

 walls were divided by 

 stone shafts into com- 

 partments, which are 

 alternately filled with 

 two types of device 

 \\-hich made possible 

 charming effects in wall 

 gardening. Of these, the 

 more important consists 

 in a series of t\veh'e 

 small recesses arranged 

 checker - wise in three 

 rows of four each. The 

 garden wall was built 

 by a Lindsay of Edzell. 

 and the recesses repre- 

 sent the checkered fesse 

 of his coat-of-arms. The 

 Lindsay checkers are 

 blue and sih'er, and no 

 doubt the recesses were 

 filled with some blue 

 flowering plant of dwarf 

 habit and inconspicuous 

 leaf. Parkinson's Para- 

 disi in Sole, published in 

 1629, gives many flowers 

 that Lord Edzell might 

 have employed. Dwarf 

 campanulas, bell-flowers, 

 double blue daisies, 

 globe - flowers or e\'en 

 cornflowers might have 

 been used to gi\'e a com- 

 pact mass of blue. Per- 

 haps the best flower for 

 the purpose to-daj^ w^ould 

 be the lobelia ; but it was 

 not available in 1604. If 

 he chose to use the silver 

 of his coat, in the re- 

 cesses of an adioining 





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FIG. XXXI. — TREATJIENT OF WALL AT EDZELL CASTLE. 



FIG. XXXII. — A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IDEA FOR WALL GARDENING 



