THE LADIES MAGAZINE OP GARDENING. 
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August 7 * — Kinross to Kincardine. —From Kinross we proceeded to 
the Rumbling Bridge, a very singular waterfall, in which the waters of 
the river Devon are precipitated from one stony cauldron to another, so 
as to produce a strange rumbling noise. On the banks of the stream is a 
villa residence, called Blair-hill, and from the grounds of this villa the 
finest view of the cascade is obtained. The garden of the villa is prin¬ 
cipally remarkable for the garden wall, which is 1300 feet in extent. 
Among the flowers in the garden we saw, what I had never seen before; 
viz. a double Nemophila atomaria. There were also some beautiful pure 
white carnations, and a Kibes sanguineum , covered with abundance of large 
fruit, which, instead of having the insipid taste the fruit of that species 
usually has, was slightly acid and very well flavoured. In the greenhouse 
were some very ingenious boxes for striking cuttings. The glass of the 
partition between the houses was covered with wires, placed diagonally, 
which at once served to protect the glass, and train plants against. In the 
kitchen-garden we saw some very fine potatoes, called the Solan kidney. 
Castle Campbell , vulgarly known by the name of Castle Gloom, stands 
on the summit of a steep pyramidal hill, or mound, surrounded by a deep, 
narrow valley, beyond which the lofty mountains, called the Ochil hills, 
rise on every side. A more singular situation cannot be imagined; and 
even in these days of easy travelling it is almost inaccessible, from the 
steepness of the hill on which it stands. When we saw it a storm was 
just coming on, and I think I never beheld a grander or more gloomy 
picture. The castle is now in ruins, having fallen into the hands of the 
Globe Insurance Company, who do not think it worth repairing; and it 
has long been uninhabited. 
The Dollar Institution forms a striking contrast to the castle, to which 
it is so close a neighbour. Many years ago, a native of Dollar, who could 
neither read nor write, came up to London and made a large fortune; 
and having no children, he bequeathed his property to his native place, to 
form an institution where every native of the parish may be educated 
free of all expense, and those of the neighbouring parishes by paying a 
small fee. There are masters for French, mathematics, &c., a botanic 
garden, &c. &c., so that the poorest inhabitant of Dollar may obtain the 
highest advantages of education, if he should feel inclined to devote suffi¬ 
cient time. The rain, which now descended in torrents, prevented me 
from visiting the garden of Dr. Walker, near Dollar, but Mr. Loudon 
went into it, and he was much pleased with some beds of Saxifraga op- 
positifolia , the little blue saxifrage, which were paved with white pebbles; 
some of the plants being planted on cones or pyramids of stones, and 
suffered to hang down. 
