tall, tapering, well-formed trunk, is one of the most beautiful of 
conifers and presents a remarkable difference in habit from its 
East American ally— T. canadensis— oi which there is also a fine 
example 59 feet high but with a big, rounded, bushy head and a 
short trunk 8 feet 6 inches in girth. Abies grandis, one specimen 
of which girths 8 feet, grows very quickly here ; trees about 20 
years old are now 54 feet high. Abies nobilis, planted in great 
numbers, is one of the features of Murthly • the intense glaucous 
hue of its younger branches and the great crops of cones — large, 
stiffly upright and purple — which some trees bear near the top, 
make ir one of the most conspicuous. One specimen I measured 
was 80 feet high and 7 feet 10 inches in girth. Of Plcex sitchensia 
(known often as Abies Menziesii) one was 12 feet in girth and, 
approximately, 100 feet high. 
Pi nits iixinticula, of which so high an opinion used to be held 
sir Mur hly, ;m«l <>1' which limm-mu^ . :,.-. [lent specimens used to 
grow there, has, in many cases, had to be destroyed on account of 
the attacks of a destructive pine-ro ip.), There 
is one specimen, however, which, although not quite so fine as the 
U be one of the finest in the country ; it is 
'.'1 feet high and 6 feet 7 inches in girth. 
The glaucous form of Tsitga pattoniana, generally known in 
- :u ■\ tl -^ '■ ■■''"■• //■/. i^.-T M.mhlv he most beautiful of the 
l / ,uvl > " !: C 11 one sees it as it is here one can 
hini ; »" a.le.nuu,- idea of its merit. There is one specimen, a 
1 ' ''" ""V^;-",y- which is the most beautiful conifer I have 
seen it 1S D 4 fee t high, the trunk just over 4 feet in girth, and 
aL dense ' gracefully Pendent, plumose branches are of a silvery 
n rhe sunlight, and in contrast with darker-leaved 
- to note that seedlings raised from this pendulous 
•turned out to be true T. hooker iana ; they have not 
» character of the parent tree, Jv have they 
■■ ■. - ' - «'■■'■■■• ^. ". : • ^^ - :■-. - I 
a Jlauoon «**•«* to be merely 
a frunk 6 feet finchel "h! ° f ^ ^^ T ' hookeriana haS 
ailtttfcw'iS 1 ^ in „ 1857 ' is ^w about 90 feet high 
of JapaSsl conifer It 
^on^j^t^^^ita^- ™ ntal 
H^^^i^fJS/^^ ~> th * ***** 
V;—^ for size but showing 
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also aWhv voL. Int of e p eard ° f in Britain > There was 
> is LI T ^ aUied to l • firritl',,-;. and 
nursery bed was a healthv \l£t v ^ r T f ew in the country. In a 
nealtnj batch of about 600 seedlings of Larix 
