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poplars shooting straight aloft some 120 feet into the air, one of 
them having a bole measuring 10 feet in girth. There were also 
two remarkably fine tulip trees, Liriodendron tulipiferum, between 
90 and 100 feet in height, the largest of which girthed 9 feet 
4 inches and the other 8 feet 6 inches. A stiff climb up a 
steep bank overgrown with old yew trees, brought the party 
again to the high ground where the carriages were waiting to 
convey them on their way. 
DROPMORE. 
Dropmore, the seat of Lady Fortescue, was the next place 
visited. It lies adjacent to Cliveden, and was soon reached. 
Here the members enjoyed a rare treat in viewing the unique 
collection of specimen Conifers, among which are some of the 
largest and finest of their kind in Britain, or in fact in Europe. 
The members who visited the Perthshire estates with the Excur- 
sion last year, and noted the exotic Conifers growing there in their 
thousands in the greatest vigour, saw at Dropmore many of the 
same species that have attained to nearly their full size, and as 
they have been well taken care of from the beginning, their habits 
and characteristics are displayed to perfection. This charming 
estate was made what it is by the culture and taste of the late 
Earl and Countess of Grenville; and it is worth, to the arborist, 
going a long day’s journey to see. The treatment of the enclosed 
grounds, about 1000 acres in extent, presents a very happy example 
of the effects of the combination of nature and of art. Much of 
the land had originally been a common, on which the heather, 
the bracken, the juniper, and the silvery birch still grow in 
all their pristine beauty. In certain parts of the grounds one 
might think they were in the heart of the Highlands, and not in 
sight of Windsor Castle; but at other parts there are handsome 
avenues and fine open grassy glades in which are growing firs, 
pines, and cedars from the Himalayas, Andes, Rocky Mountains, 
Mexico, Canada, Japan, and other distant countries. 
Mr Charles Herrin, gardener and steward, met the party at the 
west entrance, and in driving along the beautiful winding avenue 
pointed out a number of memorial and other notable trees— 
among them, some fine cedars planted on the Queen’s Corona- 
tion Day in 1837, and Abies Nordmanniana planted on the 
Queen’s Jubilee Day in 1887; a couple of silver limes, and the 
