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Plan of Improvements on the New Garden at Balnagown Castle, drawn from Ideas suggested by General Wemyss.
1814
Watercolour and ink manuscript plan.
11856
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Fine garden plan of the gardens at Belnagown Castle.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the castle and grounds were remodelled along fashionable Gothic lines by the then owner Sir Charles Lockhart Ross and his wife Lady Mary.
The present plan was drawn in the year of Sir Charles's death and shows the proposed layout of the gardens with orangery, grape houses, pine shed, mushroom house, gardener's lodge, melon ground, forcing pit, melon-pit, mel...
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the castle and grounds were remodelled along fashionable Gothic lines by the then owner Sir Charles Lockhart Ross and his wife Lady Mary.
The present plan was drawn in the year of Sir Charles's death and shows the proposed layout of the gardens with orangery, grape houses, pine shed, mushroom house, gardener's lodge, melon ground, forcing pit, melon-pit, mel...
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