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is perhaps 80 ft. high, the other grows in the garden proper and 
is not so large, but is clothed with leafy branches to the base and 
forms a perfect pyramid. Perfect, too, in shape and in health 
is a splendid tree of P. orientalis, 6 ft. 1 in. in girth and pro- 
bably 80 ft. high; this beautiful spruce is very hardy and one 
of the most thriving in the London district, and the shortness of 
its leaves (they are only } to } in. long), gives its branchlets a 
very characteristic and graceful appearance. Although intro- 
duced nearly sixty years ago, there do not seem to be any large 
trees of P. polita in this country, notwithstanding the fact that it 
is hardy, succeeds well in a small state and, in J apan, gets to be 
70 to 80 ft. high; at Bicton there is a healthy tree 35 ft. high and 
3 ft. in girth of stem. 
Californian P. Breweriana. 
Araucaria imbricata.—An avenue at Bicton, some 500 yards in 
length, is the most famous and impressive representation of this 
Chilean tree in the British Isles. It is formed by fifty trees, 
twenty-five on each side, and they stand 54 ft. apart in the rows. 
avenue was planted in 1843-4 under the direction of Mr. James 
Veitch. The trees now average about 60 to 70 ft. in height and 
7 to 8 ft. in the circumference of their boles. Most of them have 
lost their lower branches, but this does not detract from the 
general effect, and reveals the curious wrinkled, swollen base of 
the trunks. 
Amongst junipers the most notable one I saw at Bicton was 
Juniperus recurva, a Himalayan species; this was about 40 ft. 
high, branching into several stems near the ground ; being in fine 
health it shows the striking pendulous character of the branchlets 
very well; a smaller one is about 35 ft. high, and both bear fruit 
freely. Of about the same size is a tree of J. flaccida, but not so 
warf J. squamata and J 
procumbens; and a plant of the very rare J. Wallichiana, only 
