Volume 13 Number ii 



The Plant World 



A Magazine of General Botany 

 NOVEMBER, 1910 



TRAVEL NOTES: RURAL ENGLAND. 

 By W. a. Cannon. 



While passing several weeks awheel in England, during 

 the months of June and July, I had a good opportunity to see, in 

 an intimate way, a good deal of the rural portion of the country. 

 Speaking literally, it was only a passing glance, but the impres- 

 sions of green roadsides and fine gardens, of plains, downs, moors, 

 and braes were so pleasant, that I have thought it worth while 

 recording some of them for the benefit of botanists who m.ay not 

 have had the opportunity to see England so favorably. 



Beginning our journey at Barnet, a suburb of London, we 

 went in a northerly direction along the eastern side of the coun- 

 try. The route included several interesting cities among which 

 were Bedford, with its memories of Bun^^an, Cambridge, where 

 we visited the botanical museum and the college, and a few 

 towns best known abroad for their ancient cathedrals. At Dur- 

 ham we turned further inland, crossing the old Roman wall near 

 the ancient Roman camp at Corbridge, and traversing hilly 

 Northumberland to Melrose and Glasgow. The route ran into 

 Scotland as far as Callander and the Trossacks. Returning to 

 Glasgow we went south through Ayrshire to Carlisle and the 

 English Lake District of Westmoreland and Cumberland. We 

 left the coast country about 100 miles south of Grasmere and 

 crossed the central portion of England to Lichfield, then to War- 

 wick, Stratford-on-Avon and Oxford. From Oxford we went 

 westward across the Berkshire downs and the plains of Salisbury 

 to Stonhenge and Salisbury. Finally, from the latter place, 

 our route lay directly for London by the northern edge of New 

 Forest and Winchester. As thus traversed, the journey was 

 nearly 1,300 miles of good roads, few large cities, and through 



