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Article: POWER OF SCOTLAND; PLANT OF THE WEEK.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- September 20, 1997
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For several centuries, Scots have been at the cutting edge of horticulture.
Remember Mr McGregor in the Peter Rabbit stories by Beatrix Potter?
He reflected the Victorian notion that the only head gardener worth having was a Scottish one.
A century ago, this small country exported gardeners, just as it now exports golf pros.
They went off to create gardens, not only in the ancestral estates of England, but in America, India and all far-flung parts of the world.
The men ruled their own empires of vast vegetable gardens, acres of ...