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in front of the Kerry Arms, or in St. Peter's-square, would be an abiding 

 pleasure ; and on the Continent certainly trees would be planted down Com- 

 mercial-road. If, however, it should be thought that space fails in the city 

 itself, trees could certainly be planted on the new ground of the Castle-green, 

 here and there in the Cathedral-close, and readily in the approaches to the 

 city of Aylatone-hiU, the Above-Eign, and Widemarsh. 



Hereford does not stand alone; our other towns are the same. Wby 

 should the Grange at Leominster be the ugly place it is, when the simple 

 planting of Elm trees around would, in a few years, make it the glory of the 

 town ? Had the Man of Ross been alive when the new ground was added to 

 the churchyard there, would he not have planted young Elms, to be the pride 

 and ornament in after ages that his own trees are now ? 



" Our fathers knew the value of a screen 

 Frem sultry suns, and, in their shady walks 

 And long-protracted bowers, enjoyed at noon 

 The gloom and coolness of declining day." — Coteper. 



John Lloyd, Esq., in thanking Dr. Bull for his eloquent paper, begged to 

 propose a resolution : 



"That the Central Committee of the Club be empowered to take such active 

 steps as may be deemed advisable, to encourage the planting of young trees of 

 the common English Elm, in our towns, and public pleasure grounds." 



This was at once seconded by the Kev. James Davies, of Moorcourt, and 

 was carried unanimously. 



The President had brought with him some fine specimens of a beautiful 

 caterpillar, the Lophocampa Carycc. so named from the plants it feeds upon 

 belonging to the genus Carya, or the Hickory tree. These pretty creatures, 

 covered with grey tufts of hair, were feeding on leaves of the common walnut, 

 juglans regixi, the only representative in this hemisphere of the natural family 

 of the Hickories. The Lophocampa caryce is a native of the Northern States of 

 America. The larvae shewn were hatched on June 5th from eggs laid by a moth 

 brought from America in the pupa state, under the care of Dr. Chapman, of 

 Abergavenny. They had just entered their last skins. The larger and more 

 handsomely tufted larvae will probably produce female moths, for amongst insects 

 the female sex is usually the larger and stronger. 



The Rev. Arthur Gray, of Orcop, sent a fine specimen of the Greater 

 Broom rape, Orobanche major, 21 inches long, in seed. This singular plant, 

 which grows as a parasite on the roots of the broom, clover, and some other 

 plants, has been unusually common this year. The Rev. George H. Cornewall 

 has said how very plentifully he has found it growing in large patches on the 

 roots of clover. 



