1885.] THE SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 363 



In connection with the visit to Knowefield Nurseries at Carlisle, 

 we give particulars of a pear tree at Linstock Castle, which was 

 the residence of the Bishops of Carlisle from the foundation of the 

 see in 1133, and continued so for two hundred years, when liose 

 Castle became their seat. It lies a short distance to the north of 

 the nurseries. It is a remarkable tree. It stands in front of the 

 old tower (now used as a farm-house), a truly venerable patriarch. 

 Doubtless it is a relic of the bishops' orchard, and must therefore 

 be at least 600 years old. The measurements are : — • 



Trunk 8 ft. high, at 5 ft. girth 1 3 ft. 5 in. 



Dividing into three large limbs, it forms a fine spreading tree 20 

 yards in diameter. The height is 6 6 ft. A curious feature of the 

 tree is that one of the limbs, having been broken by a storm a 

 great many years ago, splintered to the ground, and has taken root 

 at 14 ft. from the main trunk, and is now a large tree, and bears 

 fruit freely. The splinter-mark, some 15 in. broad, is completely 

 healed up ; no trace of the wound is visible. The tree still yields 

 large quantities of pears. Some idea of its prolific nature may be 

 gathered from the fact that the good lady of the farm-house one 

 season sold as much fruit off it as bought her husband a suit of 

 clothes. 



When the excursionists travelled from Carlisle to Penrith, they 

 passed through what was once the royal forest of Inglewood, which 

 extended from Carlisle to Penrith. It so existed up to William III., 

 when it was " granted " to the Portland family, and afterwards 

 became the possession of the Devonshire family. We are told " it 

 was a goodly great forest, full of woods, red deer and fallow, wild 

 swine, and all manner of wild beasts." Now not a tree remains of 

 it. The last tree of Inglewood fell on the 13th June 1823. It 

 stood on Wragmire Moss, and was noticed as a boundary mark for 

 600 years between the manors of the Duke of Devonshire and the 

 Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. 



With Lowther it is different. It stands in the ancient forest of 

 Whinfell. 



Wordsworth speaks thus : — 



" Lowther ! in thy majestic pile are seen 

 Cathedral pomp and grace, in apt accord, 

 With the baronial castle's sterner mien ; 

 Union significant of God adored, 

 And charters won, and guarded with the sword 

 Of ancient honour." 



Lord Macartney, in his description of the Chinese emperor's park 

 at Gehol called " Van-choo-yuen," or the paradise of ten thousand 



