MEASUREMENTS OF TREES IN 1893 anp 1894. 249 
Highland and Agricultural Society's Transactions for 1864 was 
probably taken at the ground. The Wew Statistical Account, 1839, 
gives girth of each as 19 feet at 5 feet. The first branch in each 
tree goes off at a height of about 22 or 24 feet. Mr. R. Hutchison, 
in the Highland and Agricultural Society's Transactions, 1885, 
gives the following particulars :—“ Eve,” girth, 21 feet 8 inches 
at 5 feet; height of tree, 125 feet; length of bole, 90 feet. 
“ Adam,” girth at 5 feet, 22 feet ; height, 130 feet ; bole, 90 feet. 
These Firs, “the botanical glory of the parish,” were planted by 
the Campbells of Carrick, the proprietors for many successive 
generations of Camsail. The last distinguished member of this 
family fell at Fontenoy in 1745, and thereafter Camsail was added 
to the Argyll property, in which it still remains.* > 
The GrEAN tree at Mauldslie, the estate of Sir William Wallace 
Hozier, Bart., which, in March, 1893, girthed 12 feet 8 inches, is 
a very fine tree, and must, indeed, be beautiful when in flower. 
At the Society’s excursions for the past two years no large 
Lime trees have been measured—the two finest being at Milton- 
Lockhart, 11 feet 9 inches and 11 feet 84 inches in girth; but at 
Ancrum Park we saw four splendid examples, one having the 
greatest girth of any tree we have yet measured— 24 feet at 6 feet 
4 inches—-with a solid trunk, not fluted, as many Limes are. It 
is of the large-leaved species, which seems rare in our district. 
This magnificent tree may have been planted by a Bishop of 
Glasgow when at his country seat in Roxburghshire, this estate 
having belonged to the Glasgow Episcopate in pre-Reformation 
times. 
Though the Lothians excel us in Beeches, and the Borders in 
Limes, we can hold our own with Oaks,.the only one of these 
three trees that is native to Scotland. Our most formidable rival 
is the celebrated “Capon Tree” near Jedburgh, which we 
measured in 1893, and found to girth 22 feet 63 inches at the 
narrowest part of the gnarled trunk, at 5 feet 9 inches on the north- 
east side, and 3 feet 9 inches on the south-west. It divides at 6 
feet into two stems, the northern girthing 16 feet 24 inches at base, 
and the southern 10 feet 94 inches. The diameter of the spread 
of the branches is 97 feet 2 inches. The tree is tall and massive, 
* The Book of Dumbartonshire: Joseph Irving. 1879. 
