Biggar and the House of Fleming

EARLY CONTERMINOUS PROPRIETORS.
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growing at an altitude of 700 feet above the level of the sea.
A plane in the avenue six feet from the ground, measures 13
feet in circumference, and an ash in the Dove Park, at the
same height, measures full 1 2-^ feet. A maple near the house
has attracted some attention, and received a notice in several
botanical works. The trunk at three feet from the ground
measures nearly 11 feet in circumference. At this height it
separates into two arms or boughs, both of which are large, the
one measuring 9 feet and the other 5^ feet in circumference.
The diameter of the circle covered by its branches, some twelve
years ago was 57 feet, but at that time, one of its large branches
was blown down, and the diameter was thus reduced by several
feet. We give a representation of it as it now appears.
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THE BROWNS OF COULTERMAINS.
The lands of Coultermains were held for a long time by a
family of the name of Brown, a name that prevailed largely in
the Biggar district. The first of the Browns that possessed the
estate of Coultermains, was Rodger, one of the sons of Richard
Brown of Hartree, who is mentioned in a deed serving William