144 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIPERAN: 
ABIETINA. 
ABIES CEPHALONICA* 
Loudon, v. 4. 2325. 
Lindley in Fournal of Horticultural Society, v. 5. 
Picea Cephalonica, Gordon, Pinetum, p. 146. 
Aho The history of this tree, and of its introduction 
Cephalonica into England by Sir ‘Charles Napier, 1s) vemm 
accurately given by Loudon, p. 2328. The 
young tree raised at Luscombe in Devonshire are 
there mentioned ; it was one of these young plants 
that Mr. Hoare sent as a present to [Emily] Lady 
Bunbury, and it was planted in the arboretum 
here in May, 1838; being then about ten years old 
from the seed. This has grown into a superb tree 
and is now (1864), flourishing in the highest vigour 
and beauty, not having suffered in the slightest 
degree from the severe frosts of 1860-61, or of any 
other winter. Its height was thirty-five feet in 
January, 1857, and must now certainly be above 
forty feet. 
This tree has borne cones almost every year 
since 1858, and this last year (1864), it has 
had a considerable number; but they are all 
eonfined to the very topmost of the lateral 
* The name. as has been remarked to me, should more correctly be 
Cephallenica. 
