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diameter, joining it to the base of a branch growing in the opposite 
direction. The tree is over 80 feet in height, and stands at an 
altitude of about 180 feet above sea-level, in good rich soil, exposed 
to all quarters, especially to the south and south-west. In the 
New Statistical Account, 1839, it is recorded as measuring 16 feet 
at 3 feet. At the Society’s excursion to Eglinton in 1892, we 
measured a Beech 17 feet 74 inches at 4 feet 9 inches, and at 
Stair House, on the banks of the Ayr, we found one 17 feet 8} 
inches at 4 feet 3 inches. All of these are splendid trees, but 
none of them can vie with the celebrated Beech at Newbattle 
Abbey, Mid-Lothian, the largest tree in Scotland, or even with 
one at Eccles, in Dumfriesshire, and one at Belton, in Hast 
Lothian. 
The finest Exms were seen at the excursion last June to 
Tullichewan, the estate of James Campbell, Esq., in the Vale of 
Leven. The tree which had the greatest girth was in Tullichewan 
Park, giving 19 feet 1 inch at 2 feet 5 inches, but this was not all 
true wood, and cannot be regarded as a fair record of size, much of 
the trunk being covered with protuberances. In Woodbank, the 
neighbouring estate, also belonging to Mr. Campbell, and tenanted 
by his son-in-law, W. E. Gilmour, Esq., were three fine Elms, the 
largest girthing 14 feet 9 inches at 5 feet 8 inches. Last year, in 
Ancrum Park, in Roxburghshire, the estate of Sir William Scott, 
Bart., we measured an Elm 18 feet 14 inches at 4 feet 6 inches. 
The English Elm is not common in our district, and we were 
therefore pleased to find two good examples at Milton-Lockhart, 
the estate of Major-General David Blair Lockhart, the larger 
girthing 14 feet 1} inches at 5 feet 4 inches. 
The two Sitver Firs at Camsail, Rosneath, are unexcelled by 
any in Scotland. From the uneven nature of their trunks they 
are difficult to ‘“‘tape” to a nicety, and probably no two sets of 
measurements would exactly agree. Those taken in 1894 having 
been found to differ from our previous figures, we have since 
remeasured the trees, and have substituted the latest results, 
namely, 21 feet 74 inches for the northern tree, and 21 feet 104 
inches for the southern, in both cases at a height of 4 feet 6 inches 
on the south side, which we found to be the narrowest part of 
the trunk within reach. The stems swell out both above and 
below this point, The girth of 24 feet given for each in the 
