60 A HISTORY OF 



On the 17th of June, the premiums for timber 

 trees in nurseries were announced, when it was as- 

 certained that the following persons had planted — 



John Magrath, Ross, co. Wexford . 490,600 timber trees 



Oliver Anketell, Anketell's grove . 61,750 „ 



Mrs. Mary Norton, Arbour hill . 28,000 elms 



Charles Shelly, Rathcoffey . . 27,838 timber trees 



Archibald Noble, co. Fermanagh . 25,920 „ 



Pole Cosby, Stradbally . . . 13,835 „ 



Mary Norton . . . .15,138 fruit trees 



A letter appeared in Pue's Occurrences on the 

 14th of December as to the crop of wheat, for which 

 Mr. Yelverton got a premium. On application of the 

 secretaries, he supplied all details, and his crop was 

 believed to have exceeded every other crop heard of in 

 the kingdom, 1 being 618 stone 11^ lbs., the produce of 

 one acre. 



At the end of this year, 1742, the number of 

 members of the Society stood at 98, exclusive of the 

 Dukes of Devonshire and Dorset, honorary members, 

 and on the 6th of January 1743, the number of 100 

 was reached. 



The year 1743 opened with a very gratifying 

 tribute to the work of the Society, and to the estima- 

 tion in which its labours were held, even by a section of 

 society which might not be expected to be in sympathy 

 with its aims and objects. At a meeting of the 

 Charitable Musical Society, held at the Bull's Head, 

 Fishamble street, Alderman Walker and others were 

 deputed to attend and inform the Dublin Society that 



1 Arthur Young (Tour, ii. 230), mentions this famous crop, which 

 he says had been written of in all the books on Husbandry in Europe, 

 but nobody believed in it. Young explains that Yelverton himself 

 was deceived ; for, having selected and marked out an acre in a 

 thirty-acre field, his labourers, aware of his intention, secretly put into 

 it many stocks from adjacent parts of the field. 



