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Abbey, whose name was known to all architects and antiquaries. 

 He had had printed on a card " These two stones are believed 

 to be Roman altars " ; but Mr. Micklethwaite said " They are 

 Roman altars." Notwithstanding Mr. Micklethwaite's pronounce- 

 ment, the leading antiquaries of the party remained sceptical. 

 The visitors inspected with interest the chapel of St. Edward 

 the Martyr, and beyond it the small a'Becket chapel, within the 

 large buttress at the south end of the great east window. 



At the kind invitation of Mr. A. S. Drew, the party next 

 visited the Manor House and inspected his collection of coins, 

 pottery, and other curios, among which are many of the things 

 found in Wareham. Here the HON. SEC., who, in the absence 

 of the President during the morning, had been Acting President, 

 proposed a cordial vote of thanks to the Rector for acting as 

 guide and to Mr. Drew for admitting the Club to view his 

 collection. 



THE GARDENS OF LYTCHETT HEATH. 



After luncheon the party drove to Lytchett Heath, where they 

 were received by Lord and Lady Eustace Cecil and Mr. and the 

 Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil. The Members rambled through the 

 extensive and beautiful gardens and grounds under the guidance 

 of the Hon. Mrs. EVELYN CECIL, one of the most distinguished 

 of lady Botanists, and well known in the botanical and horticul- 

 tural world as the author of "A History of Gardening in 

 England," ''London Parks and Gardens," &c. On the way the 

 Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil pointed out curious, rare, and interest- 

 ing plants and flowers. 



She first called attention to the Japanese maple, a garden hybrid which is 

 always red, but turns a brilliant scarlet in the autumn. This, she said, was 

 brought from Japan in 1837. Secondly, she showed a young cedar of Lebanon 

 that had sprung from a cone which Lord Eustace Cecil brought home from 

 Lebanon itself in 1869 ; then a profusion of hydrangeas, which, she said, do very 

 well in these gardens ; Cornish heath, and an acacia, the Australian silver wattle, 

 flowering wonderfully well. After looking at a Buddleia albiflora, the flower of 

 which, by the way, is not white, the party observed a specimen of the holly-like 

 Desfoiitana spinosa, a Peruvian plant which had gladdened Mrs. Cecil by putting 



