Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 207
es. They were laidout in terraces ; they were divided into formal parterres ; andthey were natural only where Nature compelled them towildness. Pennant also describes the old gardens as he found themin 1772 on his journey through Scotland. He says that hesaw there a bird cherry of a great size, not… … A MARBLE VASE. rooms hang a large number of portraits of the Douglases andtheir kin. We may now enter the magnificent terraced gardens,which deserve to rank with the best gardens of Scotland.Fortunately an early tiescription of them has been preserved.It is in a manuscript history of Durisdeer (in…
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