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described it as 13 ft. high. The tree, which, according to 
Aiton, was introduced in 1780, grows extremely slowly. Nearly 
eighty years after its measurement by Loudon, it was only 
25 ft. high, its trunk 2 ft. 7 in. in girth. Yet it was 
in perfect health and probably the finest of its kind in the 
British Isles. es 
A third tree of particular interest to British botanists, lost 
in the same hurricane, was a ay willow (Salva pentandra), 
which grew on the lawn due west of the Water Lily House 
(No. XV.). It was 50 ft. high, its trunk 7 ft. 9 in. in 
species. Its fragrant leaves, dark and lustrous, are more a 
those of bay laurel than the long, narrow, grey ones of typica 
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e remainder of the trees that fell, few had more than 
ordinary interest. Near No, ITT. 
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down. It was one of the numerous trees of this species that 
Few of them succeeded, 
and latterly but few remained. This, the largest of them, was 
64 ft. high and 8 ft. in girth of trunk. 
The violence of the storm was most apparent in the northern 
part of the Gardens. The great extent of woodland to the 
south—one of Kew’s Tecious assets—suffered _ little, 
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although many of the trees there have passed their zenith. 
_ The Seven Sister Elms 
the common elm r if ever, produces fertile seeds in the 
British Isles, but reproduces itself freely by means of suckers 
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regularly, although, according to P 5 
in colder, more elevated places, such as Madrid and Toledo. 
