WAR EH AM AND L^TCHETT HEATH. IxXV. 



were going to keep the lilies out of the lower pond, where there were trout. 

 The uppermost pond was made a few year ago, and was so successful that they 

 proceeded to make the others. Leading the way into a greenhouse, Mrs. Cecil 

 showed a good many rare bulbs brought back by her and Mr. Cecil from South 

 Africa, among them yellow arums which they themselves dug up in Rhodesia, 

 Melanoleuca, and a quite new thing, gloriosa superba lutea. The party having 

 shown interest in a Mimosa pudica, Mrs. Cecil next pointed to the red "mop" of 

 Hymanthus Cecil, a find of her own and so named after her. Following their 

 guide, the Club went down through a deep, cool, winding glade into the recesses 

 of the wood. Here Mrs. Cecil called attention to the fact that the last flower 

 had disappeared from the giant lily. The party next inspected the fernery, their 

 guide observing that the parsley fern there did very well. Mrs. Cecil next 

 pointed to the Aralia spinosa, seeding itself, a thing rather uncommon ; the 

 luxuriant deutzia, which had shed its profusion of petals like snow upon the 

 ground, the rain having so dashed it ; the swamp lily of California (as it is 

 called by some) lilium pardalinum ; the Agapanthus, which she said would come 

 on here later, when those in the open garden were over ; Helleborus niger, 

 and the Tropaeolum speciosum, which grows so profusely in Scotland. In 

 turn the party next noticed the Primula Japonica, a new rhododendron, the 

 " Fink Pearl," and the superb fan-palms, which Mrs. Cecil observed did very 

 well in this spot. They were Fortune's Chamaerops, introduced by that zealous 

 and adventurous collector from China, where, to facilitate his botanical 

 researches, he donned native dress. When the party had observed how 

 wonderfully well a Himalayan variety of bamboo spatheflora was growing there, 

 and had noticed the Muehlenbeckia, the hardier members of the party followed 

 Mrs. Cecil up a pretty winding path, through heath, bracken, and shrubberies, 

 to the summit of Black Mount, which wears as a coronal a curious circular 

 earthwork, mound and ditch. It was perhaps a small defensive position, or 

 more likely a look-out ; but of what period it would be hard to say. The hill- 

 top is plumed with fir-trees, and the party who climbed it were rewarded for 

 their toil by the glorious view of the heath country and the long gleaming reaches 

 of Poole Harbour which burst upon their sight. 



THE BUSINESS MEETING. 



On the re-assembly of the party at the house, the Members 

 attended a business meeting, at which four persons were elected 

 and three candidates for Membership nominated. 



The HON. SECRETARY mentioned that Mr. C. S. Prideaux 

 had lately superintended some important excavations at a 

 barrow on Mr. F. J. Barnes' quarryland at Portland, and the 



