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delight of collecting them for some small recompense, make experiments with 

 them in feeding cattle and horses, and publish the result? As a scientific society, 

 the "Woolhope Club can say they are certainly not poisonous, and equally sure 

 is it that they are nutritious, but whether the animals could really be got to 

 relish them, and if so the best way of inducing them to do so, are points that 

 have yet to be discovered. 



Two fine Lombardy Poplars grow in Hagley Park. They are believed to be 

 the largest and tallest in the county. At 5ft. from the ground they measure 

 respectively 12ft. lOin. and 14ft lin. in circumference. They stand out boldly 

 all alone, and spread out their boughs in a way that conceals their height, and 

 yet the tallest by shadow measurement was made 132 feet high. Each tree sends 

 out from its bole strong buttresses towards the North, the better to resist the 

 winds they are exposed to. 



At the foot of one of these trees some fine Funguses were found. They 

 were thought to be Agaricus (Pholiota) pudicus, and from their fragrant smell 

 and pleasant taste, which many tried, were also judged to be edible. On 

 reference to the best authorities the surmise proved to be correct. 



Some fifty yards from one of the poplars stands the Hagley Park Elm, 

 and this grand tree was next visited. It has still a fine upright bole, almost 

 free from the excrescences to which elms are so liable. It gives in fair mea- 

 surement, 22ft. lOin. in circumference at 5ft. from the ground. It is long 

 past its prime, has lost its top and many boughs, and is partially hollow, but 

 it is still a noble well balanced tree. It was greatly admired, and the wish 

 was several times expressed that it might be photographed for the Transactions. 

 In the same field another luxuriant elm gives a circumference of 14ft., and 

 thus adds its testimony to the richness and strength of the soil below. 



Near the east entrance at the cross road stands an elm which figures as a 

 boundary tree on a map of the estate, with the date 1734 upon it. Its girth 

 is only lift. 9in., aud it is given simply as a notable tree. 



The celebrated trap dyke at Bartestree was the next object on the pro- 

 gramme. The fine high pasture field leading to it was searched in vain for the 

 funguses which must commonly grow thtre ; nor did it to-day give the plea- 

 sure it usually does to its visitors, for a mist hung over the scene, and ren- 

 dered but dimly visible Backbury Hill, which had yet to be surmounted, with 

 the well known clump of fir trees on its summit. 



The geologists were interested, as they ever must be, with the well known 

 dyke of Greenstone at Bartestree. It has been thrown up in a fissure a few 

 yards wide, through horizontal strata of Old Bed Sandstone, and by its intense 

 heat at the time has baked the sandstone into a dark friable mass. It has now 

 nearly all of it been quarried away for road mending purposes. The re- 

 mainder should certainly be left as an object of the deepest scientific in- 

 terest. 



On leaving this remarkable basaltic dyke, a lofty and most luxuriant 

 bramble bush, hung with sable fruit more than usually fine, attracted attention. 



