Dunipace House, Larbert, Scotland 
1909
Sept. 12-13
  The first of these days was rainy, the second clear.
I spent these both with J. H. Harvie-Brown at Dunipace House.
The driveway leading to the house from the porter's lodge on
the public road is fully one quarter of a mile in length, shaded
by a double line of fine old trees & bordered by dense thickets
of the finest laurels & rhododendrons I have ever seen. The
house is partly surrounded by shrubbery but it fronts on
a broad grass field that slopes down towards the river and
has at its rear an open pasture, perfectly level and perhaps
six or seven acres in extent beyond which the land rises
in a steep and heavily wooded slope. In two other directions,
near at hand, lie knolls covered with groves of large trees.
Taken as a whole the place is one of exceptional beauty
& interest combining, as it does, great native attractiveness and
picturesqueness with very much that has obviously been due 
to wise and tasteful treatment at the hands of the
landscape gardener. It is essentially like a well-ordered
English estate (in most respects) yet far more pleasing to
my mind than any gentleman's place I have ever seen in
England for the reasons that it is not wholly nor even
largely artificial. The wooded slopes that I have mentioned look
much like one of our Concord hillsides and the view northward
over the sloping field is bordered in the distance by lofty
mountains. The landscape gardening, indeed, has been chiefly
restricted to the driveway and to the grounds immediately
about the house which is of simple architecture & built
of a granite stone. Here is a wealth of shrubbery of great
beauty & variety but only a few flowers. The larger trees
are chiefly oaks, English elms and beeches. Most of
the American trees I sent over in 1891 are living & some
have made a fair growth but none are really flourishing
Harvie-Brown's place.