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terraces, often of considerable width, extend on both sides of the 
river back to the drift, the rounded outlines of the latter being 
more or less covered with trees. 
Near Craigie, the old grassed scours of drift are 30 to 50 feet 
high, and only at one point was a small patch of Carboniferous 
strata seen on the edge of the Ayr Water. We had no time left 
to examine the Craigie policies and gardens, but measured a 
Spanish Chestnut 11 feet 6 inches at 6 feet from the ground. 
Near it there are a number of tall Beech trees, but none of them 
of any great girth of trunk. 
After leaving Auchincruive, the only notable plants observed 
were Malva moschata, Linn., and Cnicus heterophyllus, Willd., 
growing at not more than 20 feet above sea-level, which is the 
lowest position I have seen it at. Half-a-mile above Ayr, on the 
left bank of the river, the Soap-wort, Saponaria officinalis, Linn., 
is abundant.” 
At Auchincruive the following measurements of interesting 
trees were taken :—(1) Robinia Pseud-acacia, 7 feet 64 inches in 
girth of trunk at 3 feet from the ground ; (2) Arawcaria imbricata, 
Pav., 4 feet 7} inches at 5 feet; (3) Liriodendron tulipifera, 
Linn., 7 feet 24 inches at 3 feet 6 inches ; (4) Ginkgo (Salisburia) 
biloba, Linn., 3 feet 8} inches at 4 feet ; (5) Walnut, 11 feet 7 inches 
at 3 feet 2 inches. 
StoneByREs, 13th August, 1898.—Fifteen members and friends 
visited Stonebyres Estate on the afternoon of this date, in charm- 
ing weather. There is a small herd of Fallow-deer (Cervus dama, 
Linn.) in a park here, numbering about forty head. They are 
said to have been introduced about twenty-five years since. In 
the deer park are some large trees, two Oaks being conspicuous for 
size. The one nearest the mansion house measured 21 feet 9 inches 
in circumference of trunk at 3 feet 10 inches from the ground, 
while the other, which is a more handsome tree, and is to the 
north of the last, measured 21 feet 1 inch at 3 feet 3 inches. 
Leaving the deer park, the party proceeded to the gardens. Here 
a large Walnut tree (Juglans regia, Linn.), the trunk of which 
had a girth of 13 feet 9 inches at 3 feet 3 inches, attracted atten- 
tion. Although its symmetry is somewhat destroyed, owing to the 
loss of a large limb, it still remains a handsome tree. The gardens 
