Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new (1908)
Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, Wilson, Mary G. W., [from old catalog] illus · New York, Longmans, Green & co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 120
there followed three hundred yearsof bickers and butchery between two nations ofthe same race, speech and creed, the most purpose-less and wasteful war that ever drained the resourcesof a civilised people. Little enough does Birgham now bear the aspectof a source of strife. Perhaps the old saying… … THE HIRSEL. THE HIRSEL ridge are all that mark the birthplace of the Warof Independence. Although no part of British soilhas been so often soaked with good blood than thisvale between Birgham and Coldstream, for theTweed becomes from Birgham downwards the frontierdividing the two realms, yet…
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