Wednesday, 11 December 2019

20 Days of Orkney Trees #9

Still looking at trees planted around 'big houses', today we bring you Orkney Archive Reference D15/21/21 which includes a couple of plans of trees and plants in the old garden at Orphir House, Orphir, c.1900










If you click on the plans to enlarge them, you can see that trees planted include planes, apple, ash, elm and rowan.


The collection also includes rubbings made of initials which had been carved into the garden's trees in the 1870s:




The OS map below shows the extent of the gardens as surveyed in 1900.






1 comment:

  1. How interesting that someone thought it was important to take rubbings of the initials in the trees. It leaves me wondering if the initials were from residents of Orphir House, wanderers, or groundskeepers.

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