Wonlljope jaaturaltsts' fklis Club. 



Junk 22nd, 1883. 



" Land of delight ! let mem'ry strive, 

 To keep thy flving scenes alive ; 

 Thy grey limb'd orchards scattering wide 

 Their treasures by the highway side ; 

 Thy half-hid cottages, that show 

 The dark green moss, the resting bough." — Bloomfield. 



OLDBURY CAMP AND WOLDBUEY OR CAPLAR 

 CAMP. 



The programme of the Club for this meeting has so important an announcement 

 at the end of it, that like the postscript of a lady's letter, it outweighs all the rest. 

 We give it here " prominence of place" : — 



SPECIAL NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE CLDB. 



"The Pomona Committee have the great satisfaction to inform the members 



that the experiments they have caused to be carried on during the last four years, 



for the restoration of those valuable orchard fruits, the Foxwhelp and Skyrnie's 



Kernel apples, and the Taynton Squash pear, have completely succeeded. They 



have now upwards of 800 young trees in vigorous health, viz. : — 



Skyrme's Taynton 



Foxwhelp. Kernel. Squash. 



One year maidens, 3 ft. high ... ... 500 ... 100 ... 30 



Two years' old trees, 4ft to 5ft. high ... 80 ... 30 ... 18 



Standard Foxwhelp trees, 5ft. to 6ft. high 100 



" Members desiring to have these in the autumn, should apply immediately 

 to Mr. Theo. Lane, the secretary, who will register the list for the Committee in 

 the order of application. " 



This is really good news. If the Pomona Committee of the Woolhope Club 

 has thus saved for us these valuable fruits, it will indeed have rendered a great 

 service to our celebrated orchards. Foxwhelp cider has become very scarce, and 

 only to be met with now and then^ and is only produced on special occasions. All 

 honour to the Woolhope Club ! " if " it restores it again to us. The Committee, 

 who have taken so much trouble to propagate these excellent old varieties, must 

 pardon the use of the "if." Trees are apt to canker when they have been planted 

 a few years, and the doubt is expressed to suggest to the Committee the advisa- 

 bility of issuing special directions for the planting and care of the young trees, 

 before autumn comes. Orchard trees are too apt to be "tucked in by the heels," 

 anyhow, and left carelessly to themselves, and then people wonder that they 

 " canker," and complacently set it down to the age of the variety, rather than to 

 their own negligence, and the verdict, as usual with them, is "I told you so." 



Another peculiarity of the programme was ; the places named in it to be visited 

 — " Oldbury Camp," and "Woldbury Camp," and the common thought vvas. 



