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received them: I am also obliged to you for this useful present, 
which I shall keep as a memento of your visit. 
An adjournment was then made to the policies, and on a 
sunny slope near the mansion there was planted, in com- 
memoration of the visit of the Society to Stravithie, a fine 
example of the Golden Retinospora, or Cypress, of Japan, 
etinospora prsifera aurea, which was presented to the Society 
by Mr Alexander Milne, of Messrs Dickson & Sons, Inverleith 
Nurseries, Edinburgh. The sapling was well and truly planted, 
each member of the Council carefully placing a good spadeful 
of the rich loamy soil around its roots till the hillock was 
neatly finished, and then the best wishes of the party for its 
future welfare were cordially expressed. 
Under the guidance of the doctor, the party then had what 
was little more than a scamper through the well-kept grounds 
and garden, which, as already hinted, are charmingly situated 
in the dell of the Kenly burn. The grounds contain many 
fine beeches, which is the tree par excellence of the East 
Neuk ; and a representative collection of the newer Conifers, 
most of which thrive well here when sheltered from the bitter 
north-eastern blast, which, blowing in from the North Sea in 
the spring months, is the greatest evil that trees have to 
contend with in this district of Fife. On the sunny slopes of 
the lawn and along the sheltered glen are many nice speci- 
mens of Conifers, all of which have been planted since 1864, 
when Dr Cleghorn succeeded to his paternal estate. Among 
them are a number of specimens of Indian Conifers, raised 
from seeds which Dr Cleghorn brought home from their natural 
habitats in Northern India, and on the Himalaya Mountains, 
in 1864 and 1870; and in about a quarter of a century they 
have grown into graceful young trees. The doctor is naturally 
proud of them, as they vividly recall many pleasant incidents 
of Eastern life and travel, amidst which some of the best years 
of his life were spent. The gracefully drooping Deodar, or 
Indian Cedar, and the equally beautiful if rather tender Pinus 
excelsa, are both good specimens at their age; and there are. 
also nice plants of Cupressus torulosa, Abies Webbiana, A. 
Pindrow, and A. Morinda—the latter, however, being very 
lable to be nipped by the cold east wind in spring,—all of 
which have been raised from seeds brought home by Dr 
Cleghorn. Of other Conifers there are fine examples of the 
Douglas fir, Menzies’ spruce, Spanish fir, Lawson’s cypress, the 
Swiss stone pine, Thuja gigantea, Thujopsis borealis, Wellingtonia 
gigantea, and others. A fine young specimen of the maidenhair 
tree, Salisburia adiantifolia, after attaining a height of about 
- 20 feet in fourteen years, succumbed to the severe frost of the 
