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mcbes width are mentioned in the records of the seventeenth century ; 

 there is still standing in Devonshire church-yard the shell of an old tree 

 59 inches in diameter, and a portion of a trunk 42 inches wide was found 

 below the surface of Pebmroke Marsh in 1872. This tree must have 

 been G or 7 feet in diameter. The largest trees now standing and to all 

 external appearance sound are on Long Bird Island and at Daniel's Head ; 

 they are about 11 feet in circumference. Owing to the total neglect of 

 ibrestry, no attempt ever being made to thin the abundant seedlings 

 which spring up round every pistillate tree , the thickets are nuich 

 too crowded, and a great x^roportion of the trees become stag-headed 

 early. Keally valuable cedar timber is becoming scarce as the better 

 soils are more and more brought under cultivation, but there is still a 

 great deal suitable for cabinet work, for which its beauty and fragrance 

 recommend it ; and birds'-eye pieces are in considerable demand. The 

 cedar tiowers in March, when the stamenate trees put on a golden appear- 

 ance, which adds much to their beauty. 



Thuja pyramid^Us, Tenor. 



There was a tree of some years' standing at Mr. Henry Darrell'e, 

 Ilainilton, and several promising young plants at Mount Langton. 



Araucaria BidicelUi, Hook. The Bunya Bunya of Queensland. 



Two plants received from Trinidad in 1875 were well established at 

 Mount Langton in 1877. 



A single small Plmi^ at Mr. Shaw Wood's, Spanish Point, was the 

 only other Conifer known to the writer until a number of species were 

 received from Cambridge, Mass., and planted out in November, 1874. 

 Of these the following were living in March, 1877, but the majority had 

 made little growth : 

 Biota Nepaulensis, Endl. 



orientuUs, Don. 

 CupressKn funebris, Endl . 



Laicsoniana, Murr. 

 niacrocarpa, Hartw. 

 torulosa, Lamb. 

 Pinus longifoUa, Lamb. 

 inops, Ait. 

 pinea, Linn. 

 Sahiniana, Dougl. 

 Sequoia gigantea, Torr. 



