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widow, who lived until 1885. At her death the property came 
to the late Hon. Mark Rolle, from whom it passed to Lord 
Clinton, the present owner. 
In old accounts of Bicton, the collection of conifers and hardy 
trees and shrubs was said to occupy between thirty and forty acres. 
As some new ground has in late years been planted with conifers 
by Lord Clinton, the area is no doubt greater to-day. The 
arrangement is unusual and interesting. The collection of broad- 
leaved trees and shrubs occupies a comparatively narrow ee 
belt surrounding one section of the park. This belt is enclose 
house a commencement is made with what, in 1840, were con- 
sidered the ‘‘early’’ orders, such as Magnoliaceae, Tern- 
stroemiaceae, etc.; passing on in succession through the 
o the ‘‘later’’ ones, 
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60 to over 100 ft. high, probably unrivalled in England in their 
combination of size and variety. 
Pines.—Of the genus Pinus there is a particularly fine collec- 
tion, although a considerable number of the older trees show 
signs of failing. Many of the names under which they are 
crown are no longer in vogue. 
In the south-western maritime counties, Pinus radiata eg 
insignis) 18 very often remarkable for its fine development, but 
there cannot be many so fine as one at Bicton. It is probably 
the same as one measured by Mr. Elwes in 1902, which was then 
75 ft. high and about 15 ft. in girth; I made its finely rugged 
trunk to be now 18 ft. in girth. Not far from_this tree 1s one 
of P. contorta (here grown under its synonym r, Bolanderi), a 
very healthy, shapely tree with a trunk 7 ft. 6 in. in girth. 
There are but few examples of the true pitch pine of the S.E 
United States (P. australis) in this country, and the one in this 
