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ently but the Bhotan Pine (P. excelsa Wall.) thrives. There are also 

 nice trees of Pinus Coulteri Don and of the Himalayan P. Gerardiana 

 Wall., both coning freely, but a tree of the beautiful P. patula Schiede, 

 40 feet tall and C feet in girth of trunk was dying at the top from drought. 

 The Douglas Fir {Pseudotsuga taxifolia Brit.) is not happy and of the 

 Spruces and Firs only the Himalayan Picea Smithiana Boiss. (P. mor- 

 inda Link) and the Spanish Abies pinsapo Boiss flourish. Of these there 

 are fine trees from 50 to 75 feet tall perfect from the ground up. The 

 Crimean Abies Nordmanniana Spach and the Himalayan A. pindrow 

 Spach do fairly well but the Norway and Sitka Spruces merely exist. 

 None of the Japanese conifers appear to grow well except the variety 

 elegans of Cryptomeria japonica Don. The Cupressus do well and there 

 are excellent specimens of Cupressus torulosa Don and C. sempervirens 

 L. and quite good ones of C. macrocarpa Hartw. and of the Chinese C. fune- 

 bris Endl. The Lawson Cypress (Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana Pari.) 

 does very well and so do the Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica Manetti) and 

 the Deodar (C. deodar a Loud.). The Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens 

 Endl.) looks very miserable but its relative the Mammnoth Tree (S. 

 gigantea DC.) is represented by several fine specimens including one fully 

 60 feet tall and 11 feet in girth of trunk. Several species of Juniper are 

 cultivated and among them shapely trees of «/. drupacea Labill. and ./. 

 excelsa Bieb. In the rosary are old rose bushes fifty years old and among 

 them is growing a healthy young tree of Cunninghamia lanceolata Hook. 

 This is not an attempt to enumerate all the treasures growing in these 

 old gardens but what has been said is sufficient proof of their interesting 

 character. The fine trees of rare Pines are in themselves worth a long 

 journey to see. 



Hobart, Tasmania, April, 1921. 



NOTES 



William Purdom.— News has been received of the death, at Peking, after 



a short illness on November 7, 1921, of William Purdom, an English 

 gardener, who from 1909 to 1912 made extensive journeys in Chili, Shansi, 

 Shensi and Kansu, to collect material for this Arboretum. Purdom re- 

 turned to China in 1914 and became associated with the late Reginald 

 Farrar, spending nearly two years with him in collecting plants and seeds 

 in Kansu and the Kokonor region. In 1916 he was appointed to a post 

 in the Chinese Government Forestry Bureau and was later employed by 

 the Ministry of Communications to organize a system of tree-planting 

 by the Chinese Railways, establishing at this time the now flourishing 

 Kin Han Railway forestry station. At the time of his death Purdom 

 was engaged in the organization of a comprehensive forest survey for the 

 Chinese Railways. By botanists Purdom will be remembered by Ber- 



