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large old Pear tree, a Black Auchan, also attracted attention, 

 contrasting with the artistically arranged modern flower 

 garden in which it stands. This gave promise of much 

 future beauty, but as yet the putting in of bedding-out 

 plants was not in an advanced state. 



The party now recrossed the village green, which, like 

 everything about, was kept in beautiful order, to the park 

 and gardens of Archerfield ; which, in 1639, was possessed 

 by Alexander Forrest, son of Patrick Forrest, of Archerfield. 

 Their descendant was a Sir George Forrest. Before 1669, 

 the place was in possession of Sir John Nisbet, King's Advo- 

 cate, and a Senator of the College of Justice. The house is 

 a spacious mansion in the style of the 18th century, and is 

 now one of the residences of the Eight Hon. Christopher 

 (since dead) and Lady Mary Nisbet Hamilton. After walk- 

 ing through the gardens the members proceeded to the links 

 by the site of the Castle and village of Elbottle, of which 

 there are now few if any vestiges. The links here were 

 covered with ground ivy. The party now returned to Gul- 

 lane, seeing on the way a number of race-horses at exercise ; 

 Gullane links being a noted training place, as well as the re- 

 sort of the votaries of the Royal Game of Golf. 



The Church, dedicated to St. Andrew, was now visited, a 

 plain oblong building, with a northern and eastern aisle, the 

 former entered by an unornamented splay arch, the latter 

 by a Norman arch with a chevron ornament. The small 

 windows and doors are square headed. There are some lan- 

 cet openings concealed by the ivy. The northern aisle is the 

 burying place of the Congaltons, an ancient family once con- 

 nected with the parish. It is unroofed and grown up with 

 wild shrubs (cut down since the visit of the Club). The 

 tombstones in the eastern aisle are modern, belonging to a 

 family of the name of Yule, who possessed Gibslees, a small 

 estate near North Berwick ; one of them that of John Yule, 

 M.D., F.R.S.E., drew the lively sympathies of the company 

 from his being a naturalist (" Herbarum ac Kerum Natural- 

 ium scientia maxime imbuto.") In the churchyard one of the 



