appeared to me to be quite as luxuriant as in Perthshire, the 
proximity of the North Sea and the Firth of Forth, I suppose 
accounting for this. The conifers were especially good, some of 
them better than I saw elsewhere. Cup results in<trr<>e«r/,a, 72 feet 
high and 7 feet 6 inches in girth, was finer on die whole than any 
other I met with, though one on Sir Herbert Maxwell's estau- 
almost rivals it. Sequoia <jigant<a. said to have been received 
from Kew ;i> .frer the species was introduced. 
is now 90 feet high and girths 13 feet 6 inches. Its all v. S. smi- 
pervirens, was &6 feet high and 9 feet 3 inches in girth, and 
therefore about the same size as our biggest Kew specimen. 
Tftittpt canadensis has the big bushy head characteristic of the 
tree in Scotland, 40 feet through. Abies nobili* is represented by 
a noble specimen approximately 100 feet high, with a trunk 8 feet 
10 inches in girth. Picea Morindu was 11 feet high and 7 feet 
9 inches in girth. P. sitchensis, of which I saw elsewhere such 
large trees, is here almost as fine as any when — W feet high and 
10 feet 4 inches in girth ; as an ornamental tree, however, it has 
one frequent defect, the centre of the tree being filled with dead 
branches and twigs which the ..titer fringe of living growth is not 
dense enough to hide. Other trees finely represented were 1'inns 
e.rerlsa, P. insignia Ooiiglas Kir, Ahir* Pi„sf/pu, and A. t/ rand is, 
all girthing about 8 feet, A good specimen of the em-leaved Oak. 
(Juereus -peduneuluta var. 'httengdijiUa, was 'A t'eei high. Of 
big shrubs, I noted Neillia npuiiftdia, 30 feet through, and Spirwn 
discolor, 20 feet high. 
MONREITH. 
Monreith is situated near the end of the promontory in Wig- 
townshire that juts out towards the Isle of Man, between Luce 
Bay and Wigtown Bay. Being almost on the extreme south-west 
of Scotland, with water on three sides, the climate is necessarily 
mild and moist, and suited to many forms of tree and shrub 
growth. How rapidly some of these grow will be seen from the 
following notes. Monreith is the home of Sir Herbert Maxwell, 
who, among his many interests, regards forestry, I believe, as not 
the least. 
Pinus insignis, planted in the winter of 1883-4, is now 65 feet 
high, its growth clean and erect, and that of a single year some- 
times over 4 feet in length. P. monticola, planted in 1875. is 63 feet 
high and 4 feet 5 inches in girth. Cupressns macmrar/ia, planted 
less than thirty years ago, is 60 feet high, with a trunk 7 feet 
5 inches in girth— a model of health and vigour. These three trees 
are perhaps the most notable examples of rapid growth, but other 
evidences of the generous climate are to be seen in the fine trees 
of Thuya gigantea, Juniprrus virgittiuiia, Cujrrrssus nnothaten- 
■s_'rf, C se,,ij,errireas. and-lW.s no'hiln. In some plantations of 
Scots Pines and Larches made by Sir Herbert a few year- ago it 
was interesting to note that a few specimens of the Japanese 
Picea ajanensis were making the best headway, the " leads " of 
some this season being already over 2 feet long. Abies nordman- 
niana, although it evidently grew well in its early days, has 
proved a failure owing to the attacks of a scale insect and of a 
fungoid •peat—prrid'-nniiim '■hdinum — which causes curious 
gouty, barrel-shaped protuberances on the branches. 
