178 LETTERS FROM HAMON LE STRANGE AND ROBERT MARSHAM. 
Item at Strurnshote fen one cocke and one signet. 
Item one swane more there. 
Item at the Lower fenedike two swanes. 
Item at Brindall house one swan. 
Item at Sullingham fery one swane. 
Item at Sullingham one cocke and three signetes. 
Item at Possicke halle 2 swanes. 
Item Wickelingam one cocke and 3 signtes. 
Robt. Kemp’s note of Mr. Swans of Saxlingham. 
Swans upped in the year ’75 
Imprimis at Bintry Common one swane. 
Item at Grente Mille one swane. 
Item against Belowe Church one swane. 
Item at Linge mille one hene and one signett. 
Item at Prates Mille one swane. 
Item at Warden medowes twoe ould swans 
Item above White mille three swanes 
Item at Cossye blakewater 2 swane 
Item at three briges one swane. 
Robert Kemp his accompt of the swanes 
bought of Wynter. 
Robert Marsham, F.R.S. (1708-1797), on Arboriculture. 
In the Introductions to Mr. Marsham’s “ Indications of 
Spring,” published in our Transactions, vol. ii. p. 32, will be 
found some interesting particulars as to the treatment of the 
trees on the Stratton Strawless estate by that remarkable 
man, with farther information on the same subject in his 
letters to Gilbert White of Selborne, at pp. 133 — 195 of the 
same volume ; Mr. W. G. Clarke also contributed to our 
Transactions (vol. vi. p. 552) a contemporary notice from 
the ‘ Norwich Mercury ’ of 22nd Nov. 1777, recording 
the result of some experiments suggested by Evelyn and 
Dr. Hales and carried out by Mr. Marsham on certain Beech 
trees at Stratton, by which their growth was increased to 
almost double that of those not subjected to the same treat- 
ment, and I wish now to call attention to two letters from 
