Identifier: scottishgarden00maxw (find matches)
Title: Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937 Wilson, Mary G.W., illus
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London : E. Arnold
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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ARNCLUITH, or Barons Cleugh as itused to be, and should be still called, isin the same densely-peopled, clangorous,tram-ridden, smoke-shaded district asDalzell, lying scarcely outside themining and manufacturing town of Hamilton, asDalzell does outside Motherwell. But the seclusionof one is as perfect as that of the other, owing to theprecipitous nature of the glen where it is built and theluxuriant greenwood which clothes the cliffs on eachside of the Avon. Like Dalzell also in this, that itowes its erection to a Hamilton, namely, John ofBroomhill, ancestor of the present Lord Belhaven, whobuilt the triple dwelling house in 1583. DorothyWordsworth dismissed it in a sentence, devoting pagesto describe the oppressive splendour of HamiltonPalace on the other side of the high road ; but it iscertain that neither she nor her husband can havepenetrated this delectable pleasaunce, for no poetmight view unmoved such a felicitous fusion of artwith nature. In good truth the approaches to 186
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HAKNl. I.l I 111. BAENCLUITH Barncluith are the reverse of promising. You turn offthe tram line to the east of the tovni, and follow forhalf a mile or so what was once a country lane, but isnow a partly-built line of small villas or large cottagedwellings. Great trees have been uprooted to makeway for these, the roadway is worn into deep ruts inthe course of transition into a common street, alongwhich you proceed until, with dramatic suddenness,the scene changes. The way parts in two, passing oneither side of a row of the weirdest sycamores you eversaw\ Stretching their immense arms across bothroads, these half dozen venerable giants remind oneof the fantastic growths in Salvator Rosas impossibleforests. The right-hand road leads up to the gate-way which admits to Hamilton High Parks, wherethe wild white cattle still browse beneath thegnarled oaks of Cadzow Forest; the one to theleft descends to another gate, within which round anarrow plateau of closely-mown sward, stand atdifferent

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