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BARNCLUITH, LANARKSHIRE. 
PLATES 78 and 79. 
T would be difficult to find a more romantic or picturesque site for a garden than 
this. The position is one that does not often present itself to the garden designer, 
and those responsible for the arrangement of the terraces have certainly made the 
most of their opportunities, for although quite small in extent the garden is of 
considerable interest. From the plan and section shown on Plate 78 it will be seen 
that the ground falls precipitously to the river Avon, a distance of nearly one 
hundred feet, at an angle of about fifty degrees. The garden is arranged to the 
westward of the house in a series of five terraces, each about one hundred feet long. The lowest, which 
is of grass, about fifty feet above the river, is nineteen feet broad, and is protected by an open balustrade 
and a stone wall. At the west end of this terrace is a circular pool with a fountain consisting of a 
short fluted column bearing a bowl, which is illustrated on the same plate. Near by is a stone-arched 
seat, and at the opposite end of the terrace, under the shade of a beautiful acacia tree, is the quaint two 
storey summer-house, with a twisted double stairway leading to the upper storey, from whence a door 
admits to another terrace on the east side, ornamented with shrubs and a row of clipped yews. This is 
shown on Plate 79, a view taken from the third terrace. 
The second terrace, some fourteen feet above the first, consists of a narrow gravel walk, with a 
retaining bank of solid masonry behind, reaching nearly to the level of the third terrace, and covered with 
wall-flowers, ferns and shrubs. It is unprotected by any balustrade, and is approached from the west 
end of the first terrace by a narrow flight of steps, adjoining which is a second summer-house. At the 
opposite end of the terrace is an archway, beyond which on the same level, is the house, some two 
hundred feet away, overlooking the river. Still mounting the steep, by a narrow flight of steps, 
we reach the third terrace, nine feet broad, consisting of a grass walk, with a border of flowers. At the 
east end is a wall, and at the west end further steps leading to the fourth terrace, with its retaining wall 
clustered with flowers, forming a contrast to the neighbouring row of dark clipped yews. This 
terrace opens on to the flower garden at the east end. Above is the fifth and topmost terrace, from 
which a narrow pathway leads to the house. 
NEWBATTLE ABBEY, EDINBURGH. 
PLATE 80. 
1 EWBATTLE ABBEY is situated within a few miles of Edinburgh, and is 
surrounded by a magnificent park. The entrance gate, shown on the Plate, forms a 
monumental approach to an avenue leading to the house. It is of a type met with 
in several parts of the country, and consists of two square buildings joined by a stone 
screen, very similar to one at the entrance to Sion Park, Middlesex, the seat 
of the Duke of Northumberland. The two lodges are about fifty feet apart, 
and the screen, which is curved on plan, has small rusticated Doric columns, 
supporting an entablature with lions. In the centre are two massive stone piers, about twenty feet high, 
