wore made to obtain a Eoyal tree, but without avail. The tree having been handed him, and 
duly planted, staked and made safe, the children danced round it, singing — 
“Stand fast root, bear well top. 
Pray God stud us a good apple crop ; 
Every twig, apples big ; 
Every bough, apples enow ; 
Hats full, caps full, 
Full quarter sacks full ! 
Hurrah ! ” 
Afterwards Sir George Ilirdwood and Mr. Radcliffe Cooke completed the planting of an acre 
of Cyder Apples. Sir (feorgo and the Member for Hereford each planted a tree (this year 
nearly every tree in that orchard is already bearing fruit). Cottagers also planted fruit trees in 
their gardens. 
.Miss Sydney JJyke planted a Royal Jubilee Ap|)le tree in the gardens of Lullingstone Castle, 
which has also borne splendid fruit ; but the greatest event, which occurred in the centre of 
the village, was the planting by the children of ornamental trees on a bank of the recently- 
erected Schools, so arranged that the initial letter of each tree spells the passage in the Bonk of 
I 'ro verbs, thus; — 
M Y 
s 
P 
B 
o 
<x> 
O 
p 
?r 
N 
Cl 
O 
Like the fruit trees already referred to, the “ emblematic ” specimens on the School bank, 
as shown above, have also flourished amazingly, despite S[)ring planting and unusual drought. 
A fruitful tree has ever been the emblem of the good and just. How fitting thus to celebrate 
the benehcent reign of our beloved (jueen ! 
Algernon Holt Whi.^te, Ifsq., Her Majesty’s Inspector, came to examine the school clnldron of 
Eyusfoid immediately after Arbor Day Commemoration, and he was able to tell how his own 
father in 1820, when a boy, had sown an acorn at Clements Hall, in Essex, and rooks had built 
in the tree for thirty years after. 
