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instances of its growth in England and Wales, and by recording 

 a few heights and dimensions of the pine in the sister country, in 

 the appended Tables, we are able to see that in no way does the 

 more northern situations operate detrimentally to its growth and 

 hardihood ; nor are the specimens less rapid in growth in Scot- 

 land, when once they are fairly establislied, than in the more 

 senial English climate. Through the kindness of one of our cor- 

 respondents at Enville Gardens (Staffordshire), where there is a 

 most magnificent specimen of the F. nohilis now thirty years old, 

 and 54 feet 6 inches in height, with a girth of trunk at 1 foot 

 from the ground of 8 feet; we are able to give an accurate 

 chemical analysis of the soil in which it luxuriates, and which 

 proves so suitable for its development : — 



In too marshy sites, if confined amongst other large hard- 

 wooded trees, the P. nobilis does not succeed so well. We have 

 observed this in several situations, but the most apparent instance 

 occurs at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, where a plant growing at the 

 foot of a steep terrace, and in a very damp and marshy soil, after 

 attaining a height of 30 feet, with a development of bole of only 

 3 feet 4 inches in circumference, suddenly pined away, and after 

 lingering some time in very delicate health, was at last cut down 

 as an unsightly object. This plant was placed in quite close 

 proximity to and overshadowed on all sides by large beeches and 

 elms. 



Before passing on from this cursory notice of some of the best 

 specimen trees which we have been able after careful inquiry to 

 record, we must not omit to mention some others, of which 

 we have not been able to obtain full details of dimensions, but 

 which are probably equal to any of those of which details are 

 given m Appenchx, Table I. 



