Report of Meetings for 1891. By Dr J. Hardy. 299 



Club Meeting, I liad the opportunity of inspecting more 

 minutely the locality, than otherwise could have been accom- 

 plished. I shall, therefore, commence my observations on the 

 25th, and accompany the Club more as a spectator on the 26th, 

 ■when a couple of reporters appeared to record the details. 



On the 25th I glanced over the garden, where are some good 

 old herbaceous plants. Of these I have only noted a very richly 

 bloomed Cimicifuga racemosa, and Achillea ptarmica, flore pleno. 

 There are some very shapely thriving young Coniferae behind 

 the main garden ; but the main object in the garden itself is an 

 old Cedrus atlantica, which is like those at Pallinsburn, only 

 very much older. Its dimensions are 38 feet 6 inches high ; 8 

 feet 8 inches in girth, 5 feet from the ground ; 56 feet spread. 

 The winds and severe winters have damaged it in the top shoots 

 and sprays. 



Early in the morning the view from the river-side in front of 

 the mansion house has an almost magical effect in the 

 combination of wood aud water and green lawn and meadow 

 near at hand, and the prospect of far-off hills ; in the broad 

 river glittering in the glorious sunshine, and the flitting lights 

 and shades of the full foliaged trees. Opposite is a well- wooded 

 section of the Blake property, and upwards a reach of the 

 Tweed opens out its arms to encircle the willowy and sedgy 

 margins of Breeper Island. Beyond a cultivated interval, 

 Milne Graden grounds, heavily timbered, close in on the river, 

 in a dark mass of undulating leafiness, varied here and there 

 with more aspiring tree tops. 



There is a lonely looking fisher's shiel and a red-tiled cot on 

 the narrow strip of meadow on the far side of the river. Tweed 

 rolled solemnly between in half-flood. E,ising above the woods 

 surrounding the mouth of the Till, cultured land with its minute 

 subdivisions slopes upwards till it becomes incorporated with the 

 Cheviots. Hownaui Law and the adjoining eminences, the 

 Northern Cairn, Kilham's rolling green hills, Yevering, Hum- 

 bleton, under bright sunshine, and distant Hedgehope and 

 Dunmore, its crouching companion, are all distinct from here, 

 with their characteristic gloomy chasms and deep rent scaurs 

 and broad steep faces, dimpled with depressions, or roughened 

 with craggy swellings, and diversified with the many coloured 

 hues of their summer covering. 



