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^be 2)eni3ene of an ®lt) Cberr^ ^ree, 



Mitb IRotes of its SutrouuMnge. 



By C. J. Watkins. Plates I. & 11. 



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ORE than twenty years ago this cherry tree — then 

 approaching its prime — was a convenient place to 

 hang the saccharine snares that allured the sweet- 

 loving Lepidoptera haunting our garden, which is 

 on a strip of Liassic clay that forms one bank of 

 the little river which winds its course along the 

 Cotteswold Valley where we have long resided. 



Standing in our garden and looking up stream 

 we observe to the right a hilly ridge, about 700 feet 

 above sea level, and crowned with a wood, famous for the botanical 

 rarities found there and on the surrounding hills by Oade Roberts* 

 and his young disciple, the late Edward Newman (to whom we 

 owe so much for his valued labours in British Entomology), who 

 searched these hills and dales for floral and insect treasures, and 

 who, in his later years, in one of his letters to the writer, wished 

 to know whether the scenes of his boyhood were changed. Alas, 

 they are ! The noble old beech woods of our hill-sides are fast 



* See Withering's British Plants, 7th Edition, 1830. 



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