ARBORETUM NOTES. 141 
CONIFERA®. 
ABIETINA. 
summers. The other tree, which grows where Abies 
ie ‘ Canadensis 
the soil is more damp, appears quite healthy, 
There is a large and very beautiful Hemlock 
Spruce at Mr. Mills’s, at Sutton; it forms a 
perfect dome of verdure; its lowest branches resting 
on the ground; the main trunk almost entircly 
concealed ; the younger branches drooping in the 
same graceful way as in the young trees. The 
cones borne by this tree are as small as those 
of my tree. 
The largest Hemlock Spruces I remember to 
have ever seen are at Bowood, Lord Lansdowne’s; 
but I saw them too long ago to have a very 
precise recollection. 
ABIES DOUGLASITI. 
Loudon, v. 4, 2319. 
Lindley in Penny Cyclop; Art Abies. 
Gordon Pin. 
One in the arboretum at Barton, planted by my ee 
father in 1831, grew for many years with aston- 
ishing rapidity and vigour, and up to the age 
of perhaps fifteen years promised to be one of 
the tallest trees here; but between twenty and 
twenty-five years ago it began to show signs of 
dwindling, its leading shoot failed year after year, 
its general appearance became more scraggy ; 
