658 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
7 
[NOVEMBER 21, 1874, 
S 
i ications were read :— Friday, August 7.—This morning th 
advancement of botanical study in this city and country, The following communica sta peck ah setae. g the Paty again 
| a k started at eight, being divided into tw 
omewhat suddenly turned u “p, healind e I. Notes of an Excursion made by the Scottish he proceed y a two-horse dr 
t 
concu 
arisen for the ‘fa farther she ty the 
a t would i ns 
eneikes,. and p dat “at first repel those official 
persons who consider their ox at 
defend the public purse aga a all co oa 
profession of physic in ome county adie the last 
half of the ec Say ry—Sir Andrew Balfour 
rt Sibbald. Sir Robert Christison gave a 
by the Society eae 
in London. In consequence, a a 
wants, and its necessities orthwith supplied. 
Thus its extent had bee n twice ela ally aided, . until 
i now a its ati 1821. A i- 
and a large tem- 
i a new 
ed to the 
~ t was an arboretum—in pisin anguage, they had 
o forest. There was no fit ae for the culture of 
their aonana E trees —for studying the conditions 
for the vation of them, the 
causes “of “failure, their diseases, and the prevention 
f thes well as thei ; Cudan aeiy there 
was no opportunity for the study of forestry, and in 
esent position of the country this appeared to be 
us defect. ir 1 
where See: of forests 
thor picaghly Y trained ; and yet, where could 
bran ical instruction be so 
field for instruction. He had of late been more than 
once applied to by young men destined for the charge 
under _Governm ent of the forests in India and the 
| required 
part “of tet period of study: steno i a 
n the forests of France and Ger this 
was n ore ago ee that abo 
should be laket he the 
om poring 
aa pra Robert € Christine had re 
hei aid t 
Society in the measer akah of ps aies they had 
in view. 
Sir Robert Christison remarked that the Society 
S also endeavour to bring landed proprietors to 
their aid in this matter. 
3 core Proposed a yote of thanks to Sir 
stis ors one and men 
ps A Diu Club to the A berdenshire and Forfarshire 
August, 1874. By Professor Balfour, 
cottish Botanical aS, Club having in 
former years visited on several occasions the Bre adal- 
ampians in Los vicinity of 
year Ace mees xcursion 
n which many rare ersa plants 
occur, and some portions of Br have not þeen suf- 
ficiently ami ine 
— The party left for the 
Tuesday, August 
i m "e Holger mie ie 
the party and the date of billy i it was expected that 
complete Seaside ould have been provided. 
Unfortunately, however, on their arrival they found 
that the inn was full, and that all the accommodation 
to be had was two attic rooms with two beds in each. 
In if otsernence of en eight of the party were com- 
pelled to take up their 
sleeping two ina hed: one occu 
imee one a sofa, one 
one a small couch. In 
dinner, the party had to erai to th 
ments sit tet toa zable-ď hôte in 
their ordinary — al midst an assemblage of 
ner-dress, with all the appendages 
&c. The old Soia brestige 
of Braemar is now gone, and the een 
yp plants in dr rying- paper in the aini 
In fact, botanists 
en is no sympathy 
Prince Consort’ i ‘keeper called ‘*herb gatherers ”—an 
bass applied by him many te ago to a botanist 
who attempted to ascend Lochn 
Wednesday, August 5- —A fter E breakfast the Si 
started for the keeper’s house at thè of L 
Callater, whence they ascended Se The 
weather at first was promising, but ere lone it ‘became 
very wet, misty, stormy and cold. When they reached 
the cairn the party were drenched and benumbed. I 
spite of this some of the party descended one of th 
it impossible to o 
at the foot of the cliffs, as a ma 
were 
sees and a 
thence an dncuinforiable descent amidst mist and rain, 
Thursday, August 6.—This morning at eight t 
started for Canlochan. ey BE e 
alpina, Saxifraga stellaris, - Saxifraga hypnoides. 
Epilobium alpinum, ee lium fe The also 
in considerable wantity P 
operas alpinus, and pd teos ear 
the summit of the ridge they gathered Carex rariflora, 
Carex aquatilis, and Splachnum vasculosum, De 
X 
Dryas octopetala, ` Carex ` atrata aria mR fi 
Veronica saxatilis, Saxifraga Kiei plc orm Salis. 
burgensis, Hieracium anglicu 
chrysanthum, hey eta pile naria spa rea, 
Epilobium  amagallid ifo Sian At 2500 were 
gathered P. a vulgaris, Arabis hirsuta, Lysimachia 
ee Sanam flexuosum, atid Chrysosplenium 
al 
In the descent into — er the party passed 
through of Aio grees 
i t southern side 
of Mulgediu 
discov by Dr. 
nen we 
ae 
s mo we 
r where we met our 
eyances at 6 P,M., and returned to Siac about 
M. 
these c erto been cons 
haustible, but the strain was now aie felt, $ 
tracts had bee f this source of 
1 ve measures been adopted in bo 
spheres to regulate the felling and pr 
destruction of timber. Dr. Cleghorn 
neck Waterfall ; Salix anata 
eni Salix Sadlerii by Dr. B 
allater Subularia aquatica a Lo Daria 
were colle ss At the Deana Weleda a fine 
j mas 
ae at his post at Braemar, 
mbing. He took 
n 
We proceeded to the ionok, cales fe ite a 
in-dal, we gathered abunda 
alpinus in = station = discovered ri 
In many parts of the hills this — forms ti the turf, anf 
it is said to be eaten by the nsiderable 
number of the plants were in ‘on ‘ae other 
. . They;were unable to go to the — 
spot sek mesg: = Ek naes was gathered maty 
years ago by D in Ba 
The ay was Hoen With occasional s and 
the of Lochnagar, Cai , and Bea 
Manih 3 ead other high Dainis abt ta fine, 
The two oe of the party met again at the 
hotel at 7 P 
Sat: jee ding ¢ §.—The party left after ia 
fast, and proceeded in two drags and a dog-cart to 
Spittal of Glenshee, where they changed “ho Ma 
conveyances and e oceeded to oo 
heavy showers, 
ber of miles travelled by the party wa 
TES fo and the total necessary expenses 
5 ea 
II. Notice of a New Alpine Willow, Salix Sadleti 
(Syme), By Sd Carex oon ida (All) asa prti 
plant. r. John Sadler. ; 
Mr. S ae fos pimi these nie ue : 
ch Chander (L. _Ceann-mor 
Augus t- DreB ll Syme, wh 
plants, has named the Willow in hon 
discover: The C 
Scottish Arboricultural : Nov. 
first session of this oc wa 
November 4, in the 
ay, 
Royal Botanic Garden, ~Edinbu 
horn, of St yy MD; ERS 
the chair. In delivering his re 
to the satisfactory 
the lumber trade in Canada and the 
India, and other valuable additions to 
