74 Report of Meeting!^ for 1890. By Dr J. Hardy. 



St. Hilda, South Shields. He cultivated music, painting, and 

 engraving ; and being a man of literary ability wrote poetical 

 and prose sketches and essays of local merit ; but ' ' his disposi- 

 tion was retired, and he buried in the shade talents and acquire- 

 ments of no common order." He died May 5, 1827, at Seaham, 

 and was buried by his own desire, under a spreading sycamore 

 on the south side of Seaham churchyard, near the brink of a 

 romantic dean. (Richardson's Table Book, Hist. Div. iii., p. 

 344). These Wallises originated from Whitley Castle, and may 

 have been, although it does not appear that it was claimed, of 

 the old Knaresdale stock. To the eastwards, the village lines 

 the public road, with the gardens gay with flowers and neatly 

 ordered before the cottages, whose walls and door fronts are 

 bright with creepers, especially Roses, and the blossoms in their 

 variable tints of blue of Clematis Jachnanni. 



The company were then conducted by Mr Bolam to the exten- 

 sive garden at Carham Hall. Here on the Scotch side of the 

 river opposite to the screen of wood on the south side, corn 

 and grass fields and bits of wood slope upwards, plain and un- 

 ostentatious (but a painter would have admired the Butterbur 

 clumps) ; lower down at Oarham boat-house, the rocks CTop up in 

 the channel, and the river rushing impetuously round the 

 obstacles they interpose, with many a wheel, contribute to form 

 a fine angling water. The south banks are lined with a belt of 

 tall trees, which shelter the garden. There are some magnificent 

 Silver Firs and Elms in this strip of wood ; the Beeches, Limes, 

 and Oaks, are perhaps not quite so large. 



The view of the American gardens and the borders, from the 

 rich variety of plants and shrubs cultivated under Mrs Hodgson 

 Huntley's superintendence, provided a great treat to the botanists, 

 who were delighted with all they saw. Many shrubs grow here 

 in the open air that require the protection of glass elsewhere. 

 The show of fruit likewise proved attractive. Peaches ripen on 

 the walls. Some old, still upright Pear trees are reputed to ))e 

 from old orchards of the Monks ; and there are some peculiar 

 sorts that thrive here. There were good Bergamots ; and a 

 beautiful longish oval large pear, coloured red and yellow like a 

 peach, which is adapted for winter use. Apples were a good 

 crop. Filberts are grown in the garden. The variety of 

 Cratsegi was remarkable. The Cytisus purpurascens, a form of 

 C.purpureus usually engrafted on a Laburnum was worth noticing. 



