. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . E Ythan, beloved of trout-fishers, flowsthrough a fair strath enriched withmany memories and set with manyan ancient fortalice. Transcending allothers in Aberdeenshire—perhaps in allScotland—for architectural interest is the magnificentcastle of Fyvie, whereof the history has its sourcein days long before Edward I. of England madeit his lodging in 1296, and bids fair to outlast bymany centuries the visit of Edward VII. of GreatBritain and Ireland (and a good deal else besides)in 1907. When the annals of a ho
. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . E Ythan, beloved of trout-fishers, flowsthrough a fair strath enriched withmany memories and set with manyan ancient fortalice. Transcending allothers in Aberdeenshire—perhaps in allScotland—for architectural interest is the magnificentcastle of Fyvie, whereof the history has its sourcein days long before Edward I. of England madeit his lodging in 1296, and bids fair to outlast bymany centuries the visit of Edward VII. of GreatBritain and Ireland (and a good deal else besides)in 1907. When the annals of a house extend overso many centuries, trifling chronological inexactitudesmay be treated with leniency; still, it taxes ourcredulity rather beyond its limits to be shown in thefifteenth century Seton tower at Fyvie the actual bed-room occupied by the first Edward in the thirteenthcentury! In truth, there is no part of the buildingwhich can be declared confidently to have belongedto the original stronghold, so completely has thewhole castle undergone reconstruction by successive 130. MANSI-; OK lV\Ii:. MANSE OF FYVIE owners. Nevertheless it remains almost withouta rival as an example of the peculiar Scottishstyle. So sweetly the woods and fields smile under thefleecy clouds, so blue are the hill-crests and sosparkling the streams, that we cannot grudge thehours as the leisurely local wends its way fromAberdeen on this perfect summer day. In due timewe alight (in literature people do not get out oftrains and carnages, they alight) on the platform ofFyvie station. There is a choice of ways thence to ourdestination—the legitimate one by the high road,but that has been robbed of much of its charm bythe interminable park wall which Lord Leith ofFyvie recently caused to be built for the relief ofthe unemployed ; so we take the other, illegitimateperhaps, to mere wayfarers as we are, butScottish landowQers are never illiberal in the matterof trespass. Entering the policies of Fyvie a
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