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Another Holly hedge, of later date than the preceding, is 

 also deserving of notice. It is the boundary between the flower 

 and kitchen gardens at Moredun, the seat of David Ander- 

 son, Esq., about three miles south of Edinburgh, near to the 

 village of Gilmerton, and in the parish of Liberton. It was 

 planted in the beginning of the last century by Sir James 

 Stewart, Bart., of Good-Trees, the name by which Moredun 

 was then known. It extends in a straight line running east 

 and west 378 feet ; it is twenty feet high, nine feet wide at 

 bottom, and four feet wide at top. Some few years since it 

 was in a very ragged state, occasioned partly by an opening 

 which had been made for a passage through it, and partly by 

 injury from a fire which occurred in a building near to it. 

 By good management and judicious pruning it has been 

 brought into its present regular state, having been reduced 

 in some parts to make it even. It is now growing vigorously, 

 and will soon equal the height of any of the hedges before 

 mentioned, it being proposed to allow it to taper to a point 

 at the top. It is annually pruned and brought into shape 

 with hedge shears. 



Among the magnificent trees and evergreens which adorn 

 the grounds on the banks of the Frith of Forth, at Hopetoun 

 House, the seat of The Earl of Hopetoun, near Queens- 

 ferry, the Hollies are not the least conspicuous. These were 

 planted about, but previous to, the year 1740. Most of them 

 have very fine trunks, the largest being fifty feet high, with 

 a clear trunk of twenty feet, and measuring, at three feet 

 from the ground, five feet eight inches in circumference. 

 Several are of equal height, with trunks from ten to twenty 

 feet Ion-, and measuring, at the above mentioned distance 



