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compared with that of tlie stem, he anticij^ates it will produce 

 good tiiul)('r. Otlu'r n'ood oxaiii))le.s of tliis conifer exist in Perth- 

 shire, wlicif, indeed, llus f;iinii\- lind in'ohaldy llicir most congenial 

 lialiitaL in Scotland, ami a]iiH;ir lu lliri\c better than in other 

 and seaboard counties. At Abercairny, near Criefi', altiiough 

 the trees have oidy been eiglit years plante<l, some are aln!ady 

 IG feet high, and many others from 10 to 12 feet (aUitnde of 

 site, 120 feet). At Milne-Clraden, Berwicksliire, at an altitude of 

 lOU feet, there is a very liandsome tree, now 42 feet in heiglit, 

 and girthing, at ."> feet from tlie ground, 2 feet 10 inclies; tlie soil 

 is light loam on clay. The finest exanqjles of A. Alhcrtiana in 

 tlie cHstrict of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright are to be found at 

 Munches, near Dalbeattie. There they are doing etpially well in 

 vari(jus kinds of soil, — moss, clay, gravelly, — on granitic rcjck 

 formation. In this situation, in garden soil, we lind one tree, 

 abiiut twenty years old, already 41 feet in height, and girthing, 

 at 1 foot and 5 feet from the ground, 3 feet 3 inches and 2 feet 6 

 inches respectively. Another, in a plantation, and of same age, 

 is 39 feet high, and 3 feet 5 indies and 2 feet 5 inches in girth 

 at the same jioints of measurement. On the lied Sandstone rock 

 formation of East Lothian, near the sea, it also seems to thrive 

 well. At Smeaton, near Prestonkirk, in that district, there is a 

 line specimen, now fully 20 feet high, growing at an altitude of 

 90 feet in a good black loam soil upon gra\'elly subsoil, on the 

 Eed Sandstone formation. At Loganbank, in the central district 

 of Mid-Lothian (altitude 700 feet) A. Alhertiana thrives well 

 in a light sandy clay soil on yellow clay bottom ; and in 1878 

 two specimens measured as follows : — No. 1, 29 feet in height, 

 and at 1 foot from the ground 2 feet 10 inches in girth. No. 2, 

 26 feet high, and 2 feet 2 inches at 3 feet from the ground. Both 

 trees have been planted within twenty years. At Newbattle, 

 Mid-Lothian, A. Alhcrtiana is (piite hardy, and is making very 

 rapid growths of young wood annually. Many ])lants placed 

 there within a few years are already above 12 feet high. The 

 soil is good loam on gravel. At Carlowi'ie, West Lothian, A. 

 Alhcrtiana has been planted in good dee]) alluvial loam, on a 

 clayey retentive subsoil, and has made good progress, — the plants 

 are still young, but are making vigorous annual shoots of fully a 

 foot in length. They are now about 15 feet high, and have been 

 only eight years planted. The severity of last winter in this 

 situation, which is low lying, being only 92 feet altitude above 

 sea-level, and (piite close to the bed of the river Almond, tested 

 the hardihood of the newer coniferai very smartly, and A. 

 Alhcrtiana, about 15 feet high, has lost its leading shoot and 

 nearly all its young wood. This damage was occasioned not so 

 much by the number of degrees of frost as by the bright sun- 

 shine during the month of March, after one or two niuhts 



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