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1854. lu May,^ 1908, it was 104 feet liigli by 9 feet 11 inches 

 in girth, but since tben its top has been blown off, and it is 

 probably no higher now. Its trunk is 10 feet 7 inches in girth 

 at the present time. There are, hoM'ever, other fine examples, 

 of Abies nohilis in our islands, especially in Scotland. Much 

 more interesting to me was a most notable specimen of Torreya 



i 



lied " Califuruian nut- 



meg," from the resemblance of its seeds to common nutmegs. 

 This tree is about 35 feet high and about 40 feet in diameter. Its 

 trunk, which girths 5 feet 7 inches, is quite erect and tapering,, 

 the side branches spread slightly above the horizontal plane, and 

 the branchlets are perfectly pendulous. This, the finest of 

 Torreyas, was discovered in California by Wm. Lobb in 1851. Of 

 the now comparatively rare Finm Sahinianay there are two trees, 

 one of them very lofty, and both with the thin, shadeless furnish- 

 ing of leaves characteristic of this pine. In the bulk of timber 

 they contain the Tortworth trees must be among- the most notable 

 m the country. A specimen of the glaucous or silver-leaved 

 variety of Mount Atlas cedar, 60 to 70 feet high and about 40 

 leet m diameter near the ground, shows how beautiful and 

 ettective a tree this is for gardens. According to Lord Ducie, 

 ^. has been a considerable mortal it v amongst the deodars 

 planted by him at Tortworth in and subsequent to the year 1854, 

 the reason for which is not very apparent, as those that remain 

 are very healthy and remarkable for their dense heavy masses of 

 loiiage. Larix leptolepis, the Japanese larch in which foresters 

 are now taking so great an interest, is represented at Tortworth 



.Jv^'^^h ^ra .' ^rf '1 *'."" °^ ^^' ^i"d in Britain. It is, I should 

 TZil f r J'^i^'^bJ' *™^^^ ^ feet 1 inch in girth. Lari^ 

 In^tT "^ ^^f/onb-Western American larch, is also succeed- 



mSmit nr+t \ '!-rf*'^^^ *'^^" i^l^^ds tliis is a tree of great 



FoHuZ'i ?h.i • ^Tn^'^l t^^yen larch of China, Pseudolari. 



in BrSin T''^^.^°?r.^^ °^e «f the most notable trees 



n o-E h of tr..l "^A^'p'* ^^ ^''^ ^^8-^^ «^<1 4 feet 4 inches 



he^vew nVt v!^^ ^IPrnmnojntys efeyans, that curious ally of 



vhie^h b^ars ks vl • ^' '}T ^^" ^^^^^^'^^^ ^^out 20 feet high 

 received at W^f^'''\T^-^"' Pl^"^-like fruit. We have lately 



but it has nft Lr .1 °^ ^^'' ^^^"^ f^-«^^ *^o V^^-- i^ Ma^<^ 



a iod examnl^o^7 "^ '^ ^'^'^ P^^^'^^ ^^ England. There is 

 ^ good example of Jumperus ea;ceha ab( 



ot the redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 



conect^onTf'^r^e'uifiX^^r ^^P^'^-^^^d at Tortworth by a 



Acer n/;toe..eTperhaps Is fefri?.*''"- T^^ T' ^f 1^""^' 

 fBl; it is one of tL 3 «-d grace- 



greyish down, especially beneath i^"" ^''^''' ^^''T^ ^^'^^' 

 species, A, ^ia6oLu^, ^'ra trunk 2 f f-'^'^'^^T ^"i^''^"''? 

 a rounded head of branXs 2??if '^'l.'^ circumference and 

 name is said to refer to +hr^ ^^.f^t m diameter. The specific 

 attached to the fruit %t% '''"]'^' persistent styles that remain 

 but the fine tre;' ^t' Tl^torth iT ^^"'^"^ ^■'^ '^ ^^^^^^'^ "^ '^^^P^^' 



ably its Caucasian repreLta 4 :?• T'^'^^" *^^ ^^^^^ ^'^ ^''^' 



piesentatne, ^hich is sometimes known as 



