Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



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Tweeddale conducted the remainder, when the former were 

 satisfied. No notes were taken, so that it is impossible to 

 enumerate the variety of family memorials shown ; hut among 

 others may be mentioned the Paintings (among others, family 

 portraits of the Earls and Marquises and their spouses from the 

 time of Charles I.) ; gold and silver ornaments, medals, jewel 

 set rings with special histories, and other jewels, armour, 

 statuary, the superb silver testimonial from India, where the 8th 

 Marquis was Governor of Madras from 1842-1848, all too 

 hurriedly glanced at and admired. 



The last conveyance, that from Lauder, having arrived, and 

 the symptoms of the mist clearing off, becoming manifest, it was 

 resolved to attempt, although in an imperfect manner, to attain 

 some of the purposes of the visit. One section selected the 

 gardens and the trees within ready reach, and comprised the 

 principal botanists and garden amateurs present, some ten to 

 twelve in number. Mr Loney took the task of reporting in 

 hand ; but with the wealth of forest trees for which Tester is 

 famous, it must be regarded as little more than a rich fragment. 



Yesteb, Slst August 1892. — This was a very wet day, and by no means 

 adapted for Tree Measuring. Still I was able to take the dimensions of a 

 few of the largest specimens thus — 



1 Beech Tree, hei 



ght70 



feet, diameter at 5 feet, 



10 ft. 



2 





, 85 



„ 



„ 



10 ft. 6 in. 



3 





, 75 



„ 



„ 



15 ft. 6 in. 



4 





, 74 



„ 





11 ft. 4 in. 



5 „ 





, 90 



„ 



,, 



14 ft. 6 in. 



6 





, 80 



,, 



„ 



13 ft. 4 in. 



7 





, 95 



,, 



,, 



13 ft. 6 in. 



8 





, 90 



,, 



„ 



14 ft. 9 in. 



Abies Douglasii, 



fine specimen, 



72 feet high „ 



5 ft. 9 in. 



Oak near Garden 



, 63 feet high, 



,, 



15 ft. 2 in. 



Limes, 





height 92 feet 



diameter at 5 feet 



14 ft. 6 in. 



^j 





„ 



94 „ 





14 ft. 8 in. 



,, 





„ 



84 „ 





13 ft. 6 in. 



„ 





,, 



86 „ 





13 ft. 



,, 





,, 



90 „ 





11 ft. 9 in. 



Spanisli 



Chestnut „ 



82 „ 





14 ft. 4 in. 





,, 



„ 



92 „ 





18 ft. 



There may be larger trees than these, but the weather was so un- 

 favourable, it was with difficulty I was enabled to get the above. In the 

 Gardens the following are worthy of mention : — a showy clump of 

 Gladioli, with other bedding plants. In the hot houses, Alamanda Sen' 



