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terraces, often of considerable width, extend on both sides of the 

 river back to the drift, the rounded outlines of the latter being 

 more or less covered with trees. 



Near Craigie, the old grassed scours of drift are 30 to 50 feet 

 high, and only at one point was a small patch of Carboniferous 

 strata seen on the edge of the Ayr Water. We had no time left 

 to examine the Craigie policies and gardens, but measured a 

 Spanish Chestnut 11 feet 6 inches at 6 feet from the ground. 

 Near it there are a number of tall Beech trees, but none of them 

 of anv 2;reat orirth of trunk. 



After leaving Auchincruive, the only notable plants observed 

 were Malva moschata, Linn., and Cnicus heterophyllus, Willd., 

 growing at not more than 20 feet above sea-level, which is the 

 lowest position I have seen it at. Half-a-mile above Ayr, on the 

 left bank of the river, the Soap-wort, Saponaria officinalis, Linn., 

 is abundant." 



At Auchincruive the followinsj measurements of interestino; 

 trees were taken : — (1) Rohinia Pseud-acacia, 7 feet 6|- inches in 

 girth of trunk at 3 feet from the ground ; (2) Araucaria imhricata, 

 Pav., 4 feet 7|- inches at 5 feet ; (3) Liriodendron tulipifera, 

 Linn., 7 feet 2 J inches at 3 feet 6 inches ; (4) Ginkgo (Salisburia) 

 hiloha, Linn., 3 feet 8| inches at 4 feet ; (5) Walnut, 1 1 feet 7 inches 

 at 3 feet 2 inches. 



Stonebyres, 13th August, 1898. — Fifteen members and friends 

 visited Stonebyres Estate on the afternoon of this date, in charm- 

 ing weather. There is a small herd of Fallow-deer (Cervus dama, 

 Linn.) in a park here, numbering about forty head. They are 

 said to have been introduced about twenty-five years since. In 

 the deer park are some large trees, two Oaks being conspicuous for 

 size. The one nearest the mansion house measured 21 feet 9 inches 

 in circumference of trunk at 3 feet 10 inches from the ground, 

 while the other, which is a more handsome tree, and is to the 

 north of the last, measured 21 feet 1 inch at 3 feet 3 inches. 

 Leaving the deer park, the party proceeded to the gardens. Here 

 a large Walnut tree (Juglans regia, Linn.), the trunk of which 

 had a girth of 13 feet 9 inches at 3 feet 3 inches, attracted atten- 

 tion. Although its symmetry is someAvhat destroyed, owing to the 

 loss of a large limb, it still remains a handsome tree. The gardens 



