Hl’^PPLEMKXT  TO  THE  "  JOVRXAL  OF  HORTICULTITRE,’  MARCH  13,  1902. 
XE^ningbaine  Ibousc,  East  Xotbian. 
THE  SCOTTISH  HOME  OF  THE  EARL  OF  HADDINGTON. 
HE  far-famed  Lotliiaiis.  eentralmost  of  the  Southern 
Lowlands  of  Scotland,  incdude  the  three  counties  of 
Linlithgow.  Edinlmrgh,  and  Haddington,  w'hioh.  in 
general  speech  and  writing,  are  almost  invariably  named 
West.  Mid,  and  East  Lothian  respectively.  Connectively 
they  form  a  rich  and  fertile  hinterland*  for  the  city 
of  Edinburgh  westward,  and  the  agricultural  town  of 
Dunbar  to  the  east.  J^art  of  this  liroad  plain  comprises 
of  hills.  East  Lothian  (as  I  will  now  continue  to  call  it)  has 
been  renowned  for  its  splendid  Potato  districts  during  a 
lengthened  iieriod,  but  the  orchards  at  Ormiston  and  Prestonkirk 
are,,  I  fear,  in  almo.st  the  same  deteriorated  condition  as  those 
at  Gattonside  and  Melrose,  on  the  banks  of  the  Tweed,  near 
Abbotsford.  The  county,  howevei',  continues  to  be  the_  centre 
wherein  are  many  manorial  residences,  the  more  renowned  of 
which  are  Tyninghame,  for  long  the  home  of  the  succes,sive  Earls 
Tyninghame  House:  the  west  front. 
a  valuable  coalfield,  which  is  coeval  and  united  with  the  exten¬ 
sive  carboniferous  limestone  system  which  stretches  from  the 
shores  of  Ayrshire  across  the  valleys  of  the  Clyde  and  Forth  to 
the  eastern  limits  of  the  “  Kingdom  of  Fife,”  and  a  spur,  as  we 
re. nark,  bears  south-east  and  appears  in  West  and  Mid-Lothian. 
But  Haddington  is  almost  purely  agricultural,  with  many  bu.sy 
little  towns  and  villages  situated  upon  its  mildly  undulating 
surface,  which  compri.ses  a  total  area  of  190,308  acres.  Breasting 
the  Haddington  seaboard  the  land  is  flat,  or  composed  only  of 
gently  swollen  ground,  but  in  the  south  of  the  countj'  the  aspect 
is  hilly,  and  this  character  culminates  in  the  Laimnermuir  range 
of  Haddington;  Whittinghamc,  well  known  as  Mr.  A.  J.  BalfouPs 
Scottish  seat ;  Archerfield,  belonging  to  <^he  Ogdvy’s  ;  as  also  Biel, 
and  Winton  Castle.  Other  estates  of  first  importance  include 
Sir  Archibald  Hepburn’s  home  at  Smoaton  (where  Mr.  Black  has 
enjoyed  the '  superintendence  of  the  gardens  over  forty  years) ; 
Yester  House,  possessed  by  the  Marquis  of  Twwddale  ;  Newbyth, 
>iO  long  the  haven  of  rest  for  Sir  David  Baird,  Bart.  ;  a*d  I  need 
only  name  Preston  Grange,  owned  by  Lady  Suttie ;  Gosford,  the 
property  of  the  Earl  of  Wemyss,  from  whence  the  present  head 
cf  the  Poyal  gardens  at  Sandringham  was  chosen  ;  and,  lastly, 
Broxmouth  Park,  the  Duke  of  Roxburglie’s  seat — all  of  them 
magnificent  in  extent,  and  controlled  by  Scottish  aristocrat ical 
Iliiiterlaud  =  Hiiiderland  (Germ(in). 
