352 Motto of a Silver Coin, by James Hardy. 



does very well on walls about Edinburgh.. A shrubby Hypericum is now 

 growing strongly from the root. 



Two young plants of Spiraea Lindleyana, planted among grass, coming up 

 from the roots. The Spirma ariaefolia is perfectly hardy, also an old-fash- 

 ioned pink Spircea still remaining as a hedge where there was an old vegetable 

 garden in the east end of the haugh. This last is a valuable shrub for damp 

 ground. The White Broom much injured, if not killed. Portugal Laurels, 

 some of which were going back from other frosts, or merely from age, are 

 very much injured A very large old one, of which the original stem must 

 be something like four feet round, and which has long had dead wood about 

 it, is not so leafless as the others, from being sheltered. Some young Ehodo- 

 dendrons near the lower lodge are quite or nearly lolled, though of the early 

 crimson class ; some of different kinds near the upper lodge are not touched. 



The only things to be much regretted are the injury to two very large 

 Hollies near the house, which have been aU but killed, and are much dis- 

 figured. They have been in the habit of bearing enormous crops of red and 

 yellow berries respectively ; whether this was the cause or the indication of 

 a weakened state. Xone of the Hollies without berries seem to have been 

 frosted at aU. And that done to the old fruit-trees on the lawn, of which the 

 Pear-tree and one of the Apples look half dead ; they were much covered with 

 lichen, and were certainly very old ; but it is difficult to believe they have 

 been really killed by frost. The sweet-scented garden Clematis fiammula is 

 dead in several places ; the C. Vitalba, or Traveller's Joy, not injured ; this 

 latter is supposed to be a native of England. A young plant of a hardy 

 American Magnolia, on a wall, is perfectly uninjured. The Fuchsia Mic- 

 cartoni is in aU respects a hardy perennial at Ashiesteel, dying down each 

 season. The height of Ashiesteel, from 450 to 600 feet above the sea. 

 October, 1880. 



Motto of a Silver Coin of the Emperor Charles V., found 



at Kelso. By James Haedt. 

 In Vol. Vm. of the Club's ''Proceedings," p. 548, is a notice 

 of a Spanish silver coin of the age of Charles V., and his mother 

 Joanna, found at Kelso in 1879. The central device on the 

 reverse consisted of two crowned pillars placed amidst the waves 

 of the sea, but two of the letters of the legend being rubbed 

 could not be accurately deciphered. The true reading is PLVS 

 VLTR. The two pillars represent the PiUars of Hercules, the 

 utmost gateway of the world, according to the ancient acceptance. 

 The original phrase was NE PLVS VLTEA, '' No more beyond," 

 but when Columbus had revealed a new continent, the two graven 

 pillars looking out upon the deep were still retained, but a word 

 was struck out of the motto, which then became PLVS VLTEA, 

 " More beyond," 



