290 Oja THE TREE MALLOW. 



*' Laboratory of City Analyst, 

 " Edinburgh, 6^/i i^e6ruan/ 1875. 



"Analysis of green and dried Bark of Tree Mallow, received 

 from Mr William Gorrie, Eait Lodge, Trinity. 



The following results have been reported by parties to whom 

 I previously gave seeds for trial : — 



Mr Archibald Gorrie, then wood manager for the Earl of 

 Leicester, Holkham Hall, ISTorfolk, wrote on the 17th August and 

 3d September 1874: — "A plant of the tree mallow No. 1, grown, 

 by itself, yielded 10 lbs. of green bark, which was reduced to 4 

 lbs. by drying, and its dried seeds weighed 2 lbs. 13 oz. Plants 

 2, 3, and 4, grown in a row about 2 feet apart, yielded 16 lbs. of 

 careen bark, which when dried was reduced to 8 lbs., and their 

 dried seeds weighed 7 lbs." 



Mr Eobert Henderson, manager for Colonel F. Burroughs, 

 Island of Eousay, Orkney, writing on the 30th of October last, 

 stated that — " The plants reared from your tree mallow seeds, 

 which were sown here in May 1875, have all flowered except 

 three, and we only want a little dry weather to ripen and secure 

 the seeds well. The average height of the plants is from 6 to 7 

 feet, and I send you by steamer a sample." These plants 

 came safe to hand, two of them were well furnished with good, 

 ripe seed, and the tallest one measured 9 feet 3 inches in height. 

 One of the other two, neither of w^hich had flowered, was oh feet 

 high, with seven branches ; and the other was a 2 feet high young 

 unbranched plant. These last two plants having lain with their 

 i'oots fully exposed to the weather till the 14th December — in 

 all about 6 J weeks — were then found so retentive of vitality that 

 I had them replanted, with seemingly every prospect of success. 

 This unusual vitality in unmatured plants seems dependent on 

 the larger proportion of mucilage which is contained in their 

 bark. 



Mr J. Smith, gardener, Lewis Castle, Stornoway, writing on 

 the 6th of last November, states : — " The tree mallows raised from 

 the seeds you gave me in June 1875 were much cut up by 

 hares, which appear to be very fond of them. Of those left the 

 tallest one is now about 7 feet in height, although it has not 



