Elms, limes and maple in history, natural history and literature

Course programme

Friday 2 September 2016

Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

19:00 Dinner
20:30 Field Maple and Sycamore – Identification and Ecology
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Saturday 3 September 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Our native Limes and the introduced hybrid – identification and ecology
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Which (Wych) Elm is it? Identification and ecology
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Visit to the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge - Field visit to examine elms, limes and maples (Please bring comfortable and suitable outdoor clothing and footwear)
16:45 Tea
17:00 Free 
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Elms, Limes and Maple in history and legend together with a look at the many uses to which they have been put
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Sunday 4 September 2016

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Final readings followed by a look round the gardens and grounds at Madingley with special reference to the trees studied over the weekend. (Please bring comfortable and suitable outdoor clothing and footwear)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Limes, Elms and Maples in Literature – with readings of poetry and prose by the tutor and class members*. (*Not compulsory. Participants are also asked to bring two or three poems or short prose extracts which relate to one or more of the tree species covered for the literature session on Sunday. If you have any small objects made from any of the trees and are willing to display them on the Saturday evening – please bring them along.)
12:30 Free
12:45 Lunch

The course will disperse after lunch.