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trunk, which girthed 2 1 feet 7 inches at 4 ieet, grow a crop of self- 

 sown elms, gooseberry bushes, and the like. 



On many of the oak trunks in the park, mushrooms were plentiful. 

 They had not been observed in the Langholm traverse ; indeed, the 

 present company apparently agreed with the mass of British foresters, 

 in this unlike their Indian brethren, that the study of wild-flowers 

 accompanying special forest trees is useless, thus acting wrongly. 

 But the attention given to the Castle Garden more than made up 

 for this ; as this creation of Mr. Frederick Grant, the present 

 gardener, struck the practical men present as one of the best floral 

 arrangements they had yet inspected. Over 4000 rose bushes, 

 many of them 2 feet high, interspersed' with proportionally tall Del- 

 phiniums of dazzling light-blue colour, struck even the non-specialist, 

 whose satiated eyes had but to look on the green Thvjopsis 

 doldbraia, Wdlingtonias, or Scots fir, a neighbouring one girthing 

 8 feet 4 inches and 60 feet in height, to return again delighted with 

 the more brilliantly contrasting colours. 



The Earl of Lonsdale permitted the company to inspect the public 

 rooms, and picture and sculpture galleries of the Castle, besides 

 providing an entertainment of cake and wine. But dissertations on 

 artistic treasures embracing social history from the early days of 

 Egypt and Greece, to that of London in last century depicted by 

 Hogarth, can find no place in Forestry ; other than their striking 

 emphasis to the life of a tree compared with man. Witli thanks 

 voted here to the Earl of Lonsdale ; Mr. Temombs, the architect ; 

 I\Ir. Grant, gardener ; Mr. Ketchen, foreman forester ; and at Penrith, 

 after dinner, to Mr. Little, agent of the estate, and ilr. James Watt, 

 or Carlisle, who had not spared any exertion to make the day's 

 excursion a success, the representatives of the English and Scottish 

 Arboricultural Societies separated at Penrith, each to speed homeward 

 on varied way. 



The travellers to Edinburgh journeyed back in the track of a 

 severe storm of thunder and lightning, which terminated a day of 

 warm sunshine, gaining forestal lessons by this grand accompaniment of 

 heaven's artillery. The storm, originating in the German Ocean, could 

 be seen from the hotel windows at Penrith, slowly skirting along 

 the lower slopes of the Pennine chain ; and a little after the first 

 peal startled the assembled dinner company, it flashed and pealed 

 till the train passed Eiddings Junction to speed up the long incline 

 to Eiccarton. As we neared the vicinity of Tudhope Fell, bright 

 sunshine and dry roads gave a new zest to the drive, correcting our 

 wrong impressions of the previous misty morning of this special 

 Border scenery of bold cliffs and numerous falls and ruined watch- 

 towers. All through fell and dale, little streams sped their bright way 



