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 80
fruitsand of flowers, and the second is singularly free fromsmoke for a town of 317,459 inhabitants. Edinburghearned its name of Auld Reekie from no internalmurkiness ; it was conferred by a famous golfer ofthe eighteenth century, James Durham of Largo,who, from his home in Fife, used to watch… … PRINCES STREET GARDENS quence of the good folk preparing supper, he wouldsay, * It is time, noo, bairns, to tak the Imiks andgang to our beds, for yonders Auld Reekie, Isee, putting on her nightcap. And the nicknamewas confirmed and made in-evocable by a later andgreater authority than James…
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