22 THE GREYFRIARS AND THE MOAT BRAE. 
arch, leading into the back premises of Old Bank House, and 
other sculptured stones in the buildings at the gas works may 
still be seen. The poor remains were built into the wall which 
runs round the mound at the present day. 
On 26th June, 1839, the Council came to an agreement with 
Lord Selkirk for marking off the boundaries of the building and 
making some slight addition to it. It was shortly after this that 
the aisle, with the addition made by Lord Selkirk, was converted 
into Old Church School. 
Little more remains to be told. By agreement between the 
Town Council and the late Captain Hope, R.N., of St. Mary’s 
Isle, the Basil Warehouse, the weigh-bridge with its quaint arch, 
and the shipbuilding and woodyards, were swept away in 1895. 
The ground was laid out as a pleasure resort, and is the favourite 
haunt of townspeople and visitors. At various times human 
remains have been found in the eastern portion, many of them 
in a fair state of preservation. It may be presumed that the 
kirkyard had been discontinued as such at or before the building 
of the 1730 church, as a Council minute of 19th February, 1735, 
shows that St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard was the principal burial 
place then. On that date the Council ordered the wall round St. 
Cuthbert’s Churchyard to be rebuilt and some trees sold, the 
“kirkyard being so insufficiently fenced that cattle pastured in 
it.’ Leaves were also ordered to be put on the gate. 
The Grey Friars were established in Kirkcudbright for little 
more than a century, but their name and memory still linger. 
They and the noble family who succeeded them in the possession 
of their property have gone, but while the old Castle Aisle and 
the grey ruins of the home of the Lords Kirkcudbright exist, a 
memorial of the Little Brothers of St. Francis will not fail in our 
midst. 
The Fasciation of Plants. 
By Provost S. Arnott, F.R.H.S. 
Cultivators of plants are often interested in various 
developments which are of an abnormal character, and which 
may occur from time to time among their plants. Among 
these abnormal appearances we may place what is known as 
