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once, as probably a tradition of a dene-hole actually dated 1220 
will be in vogue in the Grays neighbourhood for years to come, 
and will be accepted as an article of faith by all good local pat¬ 
riots. 
The workmen stated that no relics or bones were found in 
the pit when broken into; by the time the visitors inspected it 
the chalk floor had been covered up by the commencement of 
the process of filling in the hole. 
The present-is not the first dene-hole which has been discovered 
in this quarry. We were informed that, some ten or twelve 
years ago, another similar pit was met with, at a point over 100 
feet to the south, and was destroyed by the quarrying opera¬ 
tions. It is more than probable that others exist further to the 
north, and that these will be met with as the face of the chalk 
is cut back during future years. 
ON CONIFERS GROWN IN SUBURBAN 
GARDENS. 
(j Being a Presidential Address delivered to the Club at the Annual 
Meeting on 2 yth March , 1920.) 
BY GULIELMA LISTER, "F.L.S. 
(With Two Plates.) 
T HOSE who live near London and take an interest in their 
own gardens may often be heard to express the view 
that they detest conifers ; and when we see, as we do only too- 
often, an Araucaria or “ Monkey-Puzzle ” planted in the front 
court of a small garden, yearly blocking out more light from the 
house-windows and becoming more unsightly as it struggles, 
with adverse circumstances,—cramped space and London smoke, 
or groups of lean and dingy Lawson’s Cypress filling places 
where light and air should be let in, and which might be made 
gay with flower borders, we may well understand the wishes of 
those who would like to do away with these unfortunates and 
have more suitable plants. 
