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THE ENGLISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



A MEETING of this Society was held on Tuesday, September Sth, 

 in the anteroom A the Town Hall, Hexham. Mr. T. P. 

 Dods occupied the chair, and there was also present : — Mr. J. 

 Davidson, Haydon Bridge ; Mr. J. Balden, Dilston ; Mr. Taylor, of 

 Edinburgh ; ]\Ir. J. W. Piobson, Hexham ; Mr. Wardle, Newton Hall ; 

 Mr. W. Fell ; Mr. Milne, Hexham ; Mr. :Matthew Jewitt ; Mr. W. 

 Havelock, Hexham ; Mr. Henry Clark ; Mr. ^Matthew Clark ; Mr. J. 

 Luke. The following new members were unanimously elected : — 

 J. H. Straker, Esq., Stagshaw House ; Mr. Wilson, Leazes Park, 

 Newcastle ; ]\Ir. T. Gray, Sheriff of Newcastle ; Mr. Malcolm Dunn, 

 Palace Gardens, Dalkeith ; Mr. Donald Erazer, Poole South Milford, 

 Yorkshire ; Mr. W. Wear, wood merchant, Hexham ; Mr. Henry 

 Forster, Bradley Cottage, Durham. — Tlianks were voted to Mr. Kay, 

 of Eothesay, forester to the Marquis of Bute, for having presented the 

 Society with a Dendrometer. The time for delivering the essays on 

 the larch disease was fixed for the end of January, and adjudicators 

 for the same were elected. An editing committee was appointed. 

 The secretary intimated that another meeting would shortly be held 

 in this district to discuss other two papers which had been promised, 

 but similar meetings would also be held in the other districts under 

 the local secretaries, when suitable papers were offered. It was 

 agreed to make the annual excursion of the Society to Cragside, Sir 

 William Armstrong's country seat, towards the end of the month. 



THE PLANTING OF OKNAMENTAL TEEES. 



Mr. J. E. Brown, manager at the Wentworth Nurseries, Hexham, 

 then read a paper on the above subject, which he illustrated by 

 specimens of leaves of the different varieties descanted on, thus 

 setting off his words with a new interest. 



About the middle of last century, American rhododendrons and 

 kalmias began to be planted in England, and from that period to the 

 present time the taste for, and consequently the importation of orna- 

 mental trees, also shrubs from foreign countries, have increased so 

 rapidly, that between 1811 and 1880 above 900 new ornamental 

 trees have been introduced into Great Britain. It is amusing and 

 scarcely creditable to know how very few ornamental trees and 

 shrubs were known to our ancestors. In the days of Queen Anne 



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