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STATISTICS OF. GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



The gardens and pleasure-grounds extensive, complete, and 

 ■well manfiged. 



Duplin Castle — near Perth; Earl of Kinnoul. A good 

 house, and well planted fn'ounds. 



Duiikeld House, — at Dunkeld ; Duke of Athol. A large plain 

 house in a bottom, surrounded by hills and mountains, cele- 

 brated for their extensive plantations, especially of the larch, 

 and for their romantic walks, waterfalls, stream--, and rocks. 

 Obvious defects of this place are, that there is no proper waUc 

 or wood to make a tour of the whole, and that the walks on 

 the hill side, do not ascend in regular gradation, but are de- 

 sultory and deficient in ^andeun 



BUiir House, — newc Blair; Duke of Athol. A genuine 

 Highland residence, chiefly remarkable for the extent of the 

 surrounding plaiitaiions which clothe many humhedi of acres 

 of lofty mountains and craggy steeps and hills. 



X Blair Druinmotul , — near Stirling ; Dnimmond, Esq. 



Celebrated as being the residence where Lord Karnes dis- 

 played his taste in planting and improving in the latter half 

 of the last century. The evergreens planted ac that time are 

 now singular ornaments to the grounds. 



X Tcnjmouih, — near Kenmore ; Karl of Bredalbane. The 

 most magnificent residence in the county. The house a 

 spacious Gothic mansion, erected at different times, placed on 

 a lawn about a mile in breadth, between two mountains, 

 which open to Loch Tay on one side, and the Tay river passes 

 within two furiongs of the house. The mountains, lawn, and 



the banks of the waters, are richly clothed with wood, through 

 which are led magnificent walks. Of the trees, the limes and 

 larches have atlaine<l to a great size, and there is an ave- 

 nue of the former 450 yards m length, scarcely equalled snj 

 where. 



X Drummoiid Castle,— near Crief; Lord Gwydir. The 

 castle enlarged, and the grounds extended and highly im- 

 proved by the present owner, assisted by his uigenious steward, 

 Lewis Kennedy. 



Odilciii/rey — uear Crief; Sir P. IMurray. A finely wooded 

 place, greatly improved by the present owner ; the kitchen- 

 garden and hot-houses laid out by Nicol. 



Liindie House, — near Dundee ; Lord Duncan. An excellent 

 kitthen-garden, by Hay of Edinburgh. 



Viilleijfiehl, — near Culross; Sir K. Preston. .A romantic 

 residence, laid out from designs by Rcpton, whose son visited 

 this place about ISOl. The principal feature deserving a 

 stranger's notice is the approach through a wooded glen. 



Gartmore, — near Crief; (irahani Esq. A fine old place, 



noted for its fine forests, old cedars" from seeds brought from 

 Syria, and a good kitchen-garden by Nicol. 



Gleneaiiles, — near Stirling; Sir K. Abeicrombie. A house 

 in the mixed style of Gothic and Grecian, of ^dams, standing 

 in finely varied giounds, well planted, and containing a fine 

 piece of water, by ^V hite. 



tustle G)e^, — near Perth; Earl Grey. A good house, by 

 Atkinson, in a delightful and well wooded situation. 



7637. ANGUS, or FORFARSHIRE. A surface of 59^,920 acres, consisting of mountains with exten- 

 sive and fertile valleys ; the former generally bearing good p.\sture, and the latter under aration, Mon- 

 trose and Arbroath have a few small market-gardens ; Brechin and Forfar have no market-garden ; but 

 many of the tradespeople cultivate spot^ of ground for their recreation; and besides supplying their 

 own families, produce a sufficiency of culinary vegetables and small fruits to meet the demands of their 

 townsmen. It is estimated that upwards of 33,0UU acres are covered with plantations. In aftertimes 

 this comity will be celebrated as having given birth to the Dons, a family of botanists of superior order. 



The Forfar Botanic Garden — vras founded by George Don, I There Is also a small green-house, containing above 1000 



a well known botanist, who added more plants to the British different species. Don died in 1S14 ; but tlie botanic garden is 



Flora than any botanist of his time. The garden contains | still kept up. 



little more than an acre; but embraces almost all kinds of | Castle Glammis,— near Glammis ; Earl of Strathmore. A 



toil and situation, and in it were crowded together nearly all very ancient building, lenovated by Inigo Jones ; the ground* 



the hardy herbaceous plants and shrubs known in Britain. | hi the ancient style, and containing" some fine old trees. 



7638. KINCARDINESHIRE. A surface of 243,444 acres, mountainous towards the north, but more 

 level and fertile on the south-east. 



Brodie House, — ai Brodie; Alexander Brodie, Esq. F. L. S. 

 A line old place, much improved, and planted, by the present 



7639. ABERDEENSHIRE. A surface of 718,806 acres, generally flat, but varied by knolls, wavy 

 ridges, and gentle inequalities, formerly moory and bleak, but now extensively planted. It is said, that 

 there is scarcely a gentleman in tlie county who has an estate of 100/, a year who has not planted some 

 hundred thousands of trees, and that there is above 50,000 acres in the county covered with artificial plant, 

 ations. There are a number of nurseries round Aberdeen noted for raising seedhngs, many of which are 

 Kent to the south of Scotland and to England, 



I proprietor ; and containing a good botanic garden, and some 

 I noble avenues. 



supply 

 of Old 



The Aberdeen Nurseri/, — IMessrs. Reid. An old and respect- 

 able establishment cmefly devoted to the culture of fore.;t 

 trees, and especially to seedlings of Scotch pine, larch fir, and 

 thorns. The father of the present occupier, who is also pro- 

 prietor of the soil (twelve acres), was gardener to Sir Arcliibald 

 Grant of Monymusk, the greatest planter in Scotland. 



Ross's Nursei-y, — a newly estabhshed concern, carried on 

 •with great spirit. There are various other nurseries. 



Market-Gardens These are numerous, both for the sup 



of the town and shipping. Almost the entire parish 

 Machar is laid out m i;his wav, and occupied by several 

 hundred industrious men. At Peterhead there are also gar- 

 dens for growing vegetables for the shipping of that place. 



Orchards. ~ There is an extensive one at Pitfour, containing 

 ten acres, including the ruins of (he ancient abbey of Deer 

 and its gardens ; one of five acres at Auchterie, and some in a 

 neglected state between Kene and IMonyrausk. 



Crathes, — neax Aberdeen. Sir R. Burnet, Bart. An ex- 

 cellent kitchert-garden m the old style, with magnificent holly 



7640. BANFSHIRE. A surface of 649,000 acres 

 cultivated. There are some good market-gardens at 



X T)i:jr House,— nea.Y Duff; Earl of Fife. A magnificent 

 quadrangular building, by Adams, in a park 13 iniles in cir- 

 cumference, chiefly laid'outby the late Mr. A\liite, On the 

 ether parts of the estate more trees have been planted than on 

 any property in the country. 



Gordon Castle, — near Gordon ; Duke of Gordon. A large 



7G4I. MORAYSHIRR A surface 42 miles long, by 20 miles broad ; great part hilly or mourttainous, 

 with extensive pine-forests ; but with a considerable tract only gently varied and well cultivated. There 

 is a market-garden at Elgin, in which onions are chiefly grown for the parishioners, and two small 

 orchards : one at Logie, formed in 1786,, and the other at Pitgaveny, formed in 1798. 

 ' 7642. NAIRNSHIRE. A surface 17 miles long, by 10 miles broad ; the greater part level and fertile. 



7643, CROMARTYSHIRE. A peninsular surface of 68,480 acres ; chiefly an elevated tract of heath, 

 but undergoing rapid improvement by the agriculturist. 



7frl4. CAITHNESS. A surface of 395,680 acres ; generally flat ; described by Pennant as an immense 

 morass, with some fertile spots. From the materials which compose this morass, it appears to have been 

 formerly full of wood ; but recent attempts to raise plantations have not been very successful. There is 

 a market-garden at Thirrso of seven acres ; a remarkable circumstance, as there are none in the counties 

 of Cromarty, Ross, or Sutherland. 



Thurso Castle, — near Thurso; Sir J, Sinclair, Chiefly I some plantations, and a kitchen-garden, and many ingenious 

 remarkable for agricultural improvements, but displaying also \ but abortive attempts at amelioration, 



7645. The ORKNEY and SHETLAND ISLES contain nothing that we have heard of worthy of 

 notice in the way of gardening. Such a thing as an orchard is unknown in these islands. In Orkney, 

 Neill observes {Gen. Rep. sect. ii. p. 180.), a few apples are produced on waU-trees ; in Shetland still fewer, 

 ^nd that only in particularly good seasons. 



7645. SUTHERLANDSHIRE. A mountainous uncultivated surface of 1,478,400 acres ; about half 

 t>f wJiich is the property of the Marquis of Stafford, who has enlarged the farms, buUt new farmeries. 



hedges, abundance of prolific finiit-trees, and venerable exotic 



shrubs. 



»jl/(>ni/mi«A-, — at Monymusk ; Sir A. Grant. Remarkable 

 for its extensive plantations, the late proprietor having planted 

 about fifty millions of trees ; some of which, at the time ot 

 liis death,"were near one hundred feet high, and above six feet 

 in circumference. The gardens and pleasure-grounds are 

 beautiful and extensive. 



Inrcrcnuld House, — near Invercauld; Farquharson, 



Esq. Famous for its pine-forests, the timber of which equals 

 that of Xorwav. 



Sluines Castle, — near Slaines ; Earl of Errol. Situated on 

 the margin of the sea, with few trees around, but with a good 

 k i t chen -garden . 



Den of Rubislaw, — near Aberdeen; Professor Davison. A 

 romaiitic villa, the gardens forming t^erraces cut out of granite 

 rock, watered by a stream, near which grow naturally many 

 rare plants, and among others, Linncea borealis. The whole 

 kept in the highest order and neatness. • 



; hilly and mountainous, with fertUe valleys well 

 Banf. 



house ; the grounds celebrated for their fine woods, extensive 

 gardei.is, and romantic walks. 



Cullen House, — near Cullen ; Earl of Findlater. Remark- 

 able for its fine old woods : the late earl being one of the 

 earliest and most extensive planters in the coimtry. 



