Sixteenth century Scottish gardens

603. In the middle of the sixteenth century, the Regent Murray had a garden in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, which existed in 1819, but is now covered with buildings. It contained some venerable pear trees, a magnificent weeping thorn tree of great age, and the remains of elm-bowers, which, says Neill, had doubtless, in their time, sheltered the fair Queen of Scots. (Hort. Tour, &c., p. 226.)