. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . roperty passed into other hands andthe garden into neglect. But the purple crocuseshave taken possession of the whole turf, and, as Ipassed that way one bright March morning all theenclosure was steeped in Tyrian dye. All of it,except where a goat was tethered on the lawn;which beast had browsed everything bare within theradius of its rope! Surely, methought, the humanretina is alike in all ranks and conditions of men,except the colour-blind. Is there not one memberof this household who cares to prevent the
. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . roperty passed into other hands andthe garden into neglect. But the purple crocuseshave taken possession of the whole turf, and, as Ipassed that way one bright March morning all theenclosure was steeped in Tyrian dye. All of it,except where a goat was tethered on the lawn;which beast had browsed everything bare within theradius of its rope! Surely, methought, the humanretina is alike in all ranks and conditions of men,except the colour-blind. Is there not one memberof this household who cares to prevent the marringof this exquisite display .^ Matters are very different at Whitehouse, wherethe crocuses have taken possession of every availablebreadth of turf and are the pride and delight of thefamily. Miss Wilson has chosen for her subject thespot where these pretty flowers cluster thickly roundan old sun-dial, which bears the inscription, Mr. DavidStrachan, 1732, the name of a former owner ofWhitehouse. It might now be inscribed with alegend applicable alike to the dial and the sun- 34. WHITEHOUSE loving flowers—Horas non numcro nisi serenas— Itake no account of hours that are not sunny. Like the dial, these crocuses are no affair ofyesterday. Who shall declare how many generationsof men have passed away since the original bulbswere planted. Brought thither they must havebeen by hand, for, although the purple Crocus vernusis admitted to the list of British plants, it is notnative to North Britain. Spring after spring, for anuntold number of years, they have multiplied andspread, covering the turf with their imperial may be that King James V. in his incognitowanderings may have noted the pretty flowers ashe passed that way. For he had a pretty adven-ture just outside this garden. He was a monarch of many fancies, some ofwhich were highly offensive to Angus Bell-the-Cat, and other haughty lords. Among thesefancies, it was Jamess humour to w^ander aboutthe country disguis
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