Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new (1908)
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, bart., 1845-, Wilson, Mary G. W., illus · London, E. Arnold · leaf 75
artin-caber—a plain rectangle sloping pleasantly to thesun ; at the upper-end a sixteenth century tower,with nineteenth century additions naively contrived ;at the lower-end a clear pool, not ample enoughto aspire to the title of loch, yet, shadowed bydark firs on the far side, too comely to bear… … t;.\RTIXCAHKIx. GARTINCABER with narrow selvage of flowering things, overhunghere and there by aged apple trees. Nothing canhave been further from the designers intentionthan landscape effect: use, not ornament, was hispurpose, flowers being admitted in grudging con-cession to feminine frivolity ;…
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