60 THE PIXUS INSIGNIS, AND ITS VALUE 



the operation, being quite vigorous and well-furnished with 

 branches. 



]^o. 2. Height, 47 feet ; girth at 3 feet, 5 feet 2 inches ; and 

 at 5 feet, 4 feet 7 inches ; age, thirty years. Transplanted to 

 its present site by Mr. Huth on 4th December 1865. 



Xo. 3. Height, 37 feet; girth at 3 feet, 5 feet 3 inches; and 

 at 5 feet, 4 feet 4 inches ; age, twenty-nine years. Very heavily 

 branched. 



No. 4. Height, 40 feet ; girth at 3 feet, 4 feet 10 inches ; and 

 at 5 feet, 4 feet ; age, twenty-five years. 



In 1870 Mr. Huth received from California some seeds of 

 Pinus insignis, which have grown and thriven amazingly. The 

 largest plant, put out on 31st October 1873, lias now attained a 

 height of 18 feet 10 inches, and girths at 3 feet from the ground 

 2 feet. At Buxted Park, Uckfield, Sussex, there is a fine speci- 

 men of Pinus insignis, over 40 feet in height, and 6 feet in 

 circumference at 5 feet from the ground. It has been planted 

 twenty-five years in its present site, in a rather poor soil of a 

 clayey nature upon a subsoil of rock, and at an altitude of 170 

 leet above sea-level, and in a rather exposed situation. It was 

 slightly injured by the frost of last winter (1879-80). At the 

 Eocks, Uckfield (Sussex), there is a fine specimen of this pine, 

 now 45 feet in height, and girthing at 5 feet above ground 3 feet 

 4 inches ; growing in a peat soil, and upon a subsoil of sand. At 

 Marestield Park, also in the neighbourhood of Uckfield (Sussex), 

 there is another fine example of Pinus hisignis, which at present 

 is 46 feet in height, and girths at 5 feet above ground 2 feet 

 10 inches: the soil there is a sandy loam upon a sand subsoil, 

 and situation exposed. At Montpelier, Hawkhurst (Kent), 

 there are, besides many other fine coniferous specimens, some 

 fine examples of the Pi7iits insignis. The soil there is rather 

 poor, marly in nature, and on a sandy-clay subsoil, but the sites 

 of the trees have hQQXi forced \\At\\ good loam, and mounds formed 

 for them, into which they have been placed when young plants. 

 These mounds, situated at an altitude of 500 feet above sea-level, 

 and exposed to wind from every quarter, were planted in the 

 spring of 1867, and the trees are now fully 20 feet in height. At 

 first they seemed to suffer from the exposure, but have quite 

 outgrown the habit ; and, as a proof of their suitability to the 

 site and altitude, it may be mentioned that even in the very 

 trying winter of last year (1879-80) they were very slightly 

 affected by the frost and cold. Their immunity from the severe 

 season may perhaps be accounted for from their being placed on 

 mounds, and being consequently free from any stagnant water 

 in the soil while the subsoil was porous and well-drained. At 

 Montpelier, Hawkhurst, several young Pinus insignis trees have 

 been cut down, and the wood presented a remarkable rigidity 



