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the red- and rose-flowered arboreum group. The rare R. Keysii 
is about 10 ft. high. Apart from rhododendrons the following 
stood out conspicuously good among Himalayan plants: Abies 
Pindrow about 50 ft. higb with a trunk 2 ft. in diameter ; 4. Webb- 
ana vividly blue-white beneath the leaves, also 2 ft. in thickness of 
trunk ; Magnolia Campbellii, planted against a wall which it had 
long overtopped, being now 30 ft. high, its still leafless shoots 
bearing many flower-buds; Tsuga Brunoniana, rarest of hemlocks, 
35 ft. high and more in width; Pieris formosa, bushes 15 ft. high. 
Leycesteria formosa, which we are accustomed to regard as an 
eminently staid bush, seems at Kilmacurragh to have lost control of 
itself and run riot as a sort of climber among tree branches 20 ft. 
from the ground. 
Chilean Plants.—But after all, in overhauling one’s notes, one 
finds that it is the Chilean trees and shrubs more than any others 
that give to the grounds at Kilmacurragh their great distinction. 
The vegetation of temperate South America seems to find in the 
Irish climate conditions as congenial to them as perhaps any other part 
of the British Isles affords ; in this respect at any rate it equals the 
climate of Cornwall or the West of Scotland. Is there anywhere, 
for instance, a finer Embothrium coceineum than the one at Kilma- 
curragh, 40 ft. high with a trunk 18 in. thick and sending up 
suckers 20 ft. away? or than Tricuspidaria lanceolata, 20 ft. high 
‘and 15 ft. through ? Of a remarkable series of Chilean conifers, 
mention must be made of the following : Prumnopitys elegans 30 ft. 
high with a trunk 1 ft. thick; two beautiful examples of Podo- 
carpus nubigena 23 ft. high and 20 ft. through, the foliage of a 
charming, fresh green, the young shocts bright yellow ; Libocedrus 
chilensis 30 ft. high and the very rare L. tetragona 20 ft. high ; 
Fitzroya patagonica 25 ft. in height and diameter ; Podocarpus 
chilina 25 ft. high, more in width, its trunk 15 in. in thickness. 
Other notable Chilean plants are Drimys Winteri 35 ft. high ; 
Azara microphylla 30 ft., in full blossom in February, its myriads of 
tiny blossoms strongly vanilla-scented ; Eugenia apiculata (Myrtus 
Luma) 25 ft. high and 20 ft. through ; Laurelia aromatica, a small 
tree which flowered and bore fruit several years ago, now 40 ft. or 
so high. 
The Mexican sylva has two fine representatives in Cupressus 
lusitanica 40 ft. high, and Abies religiosa—one of the rarest of silver 
rs—its trunk 2 ft. in diameter. __ 
Of better known things Pinus Balfouriana is 16 ft. high ; Eurya 
japonica 7 ft.; Cupressus pisifera squarrosa 30 ft. and C. thyoides _ 
var. leptoclada 20 ft. high, the latter with several slenderly pyramidal 
branches growing outwards and giving it a diameter of 20 ft.; Tex 
Perado, a Madeiran holly bearing much fruit, is 20 ft. by 25 ft. in 
diameter; a tea plant (Camellia theifera) is a bush 6 ft. through ; 
Leucothoe Catesbaei is 7 ft. high. 
H¥aprort, 
The Marquis of Headfort has just founded a very extensive 
pinetum here. He has devoted an island of about 9 acres in 
