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pastures. Various ornamental trees drew attention in the outer 

 circuit of the Priory, especially a white flowered Cratagus, 

 supposed to be Andrewsii or Aurelii, some well-grown Deodars, 

 a Cedar of Lebanon, Pinus ?iobilis, and other Coniferee. 



Mr Cadogan supplied me with a list of these. Those marked 

 with an asterisk nourish well. 



Pinus Cepbalonica,* Thuja gigantea,* 



nobilis, Berensii,* 



Benthamiana, Thnjopsis borealis,* 



Hamiltonii,*' Abies Douglasii,* 



monticola,* Welliugtonia, etc. etc., 



Lambertiana,* Araucaria imbricata. 



■ Cembra, 



Cedrus Deodara, 



" Most of the Douglas firs were grown from seed, given to me 

 by the late Sir Charles Monck from trees then growing at Belsay 

 about thirty years ago ; but I find they blow down very easily, 

 and therefore are only suited to sheltered situations. All my 

 half-hardy sorts perished in the severe winters about 1880. The 

 Cratajgus was planted before I can recollect. The gardener of 

 my early days used to call it the American Thorn, but whether 

 he was right or wrong I cannot say. It bears always a sort of 

 half haw, half apple and eatable." Mr Cadogan also communi- 

 cated that he had imported into the woods and river banks — 

 "Bird's nest fern, from Norway; Cistopteris fragilis from Scotland ; 

 Holly-fern, Lonchitis, from Ross-shire ; Onoclea sensibilis from 

 Sims' Nursery in Kent — and all seem perfectly naturalised." 



It may seem to be unsympathetic to be botanising in front of 

 the beautiful Priory, so well restored and preserved by Mr 

 Cadogan. The Club has already had its share in making it 

 better known ; and a full description of it, previous to its restora- 

 tion from the competent pen of Mr P. K. Wilson, appears in the 

 "History of the Club," vol. iv. pp. 139-H5 (with plate); 

 repeated in the churches of Lindisfarne, pp. 142-143, with a 

 ground plan of the structure. See also " Proceedings of the 

 Archaeological Institute:" Newcastle Meeting, 1852, (vol. I. pp. 

 245-252), by the Eev. John Louis Petit, M.A., F.S.A., with 

 illustrations. What information respecting its history was elicited 

 in consequence of the Club's present visit, will appear sub- 

 sequent^, Mr Cadogan having furnished an abstract of the 

 original cartulary made by Canon Greeuwell, which differs in its 

 greater fullness from that in the 2nd vol. of the " Archajologia 



