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girt. It formed rather an immense bush than a tree, and con- 
sisted of four limbs, the branches of which extended from the 
root to the length of 36 ft. There is one equally large at Powers- 
court, Wicklow, which was planted about 90 years ago; and 
one, of similar size and age, at Newton Mount Kennedy, was 
blown down in 1804. The Zrica mediterranea was found grow- 
ing, by Mr. Mackay, in Cunnemara, on the western coast. (See 
Gard. Mag., vol. vii. p. 230. and the forthcoming Lrish Flora of 
Mr. Mackay.) rica mediterranea has not only been found on 
the side of Errisbeg mountain, covering a space of three acres, 
but in the wild district of Erris, in the county of Mayo, in the 
greatest profusion. It is a distinct variety from the plant of the 
same name in gardens, and is considered by Dr. Greville to be 
the same as that found in the Western Pyrenees. 
We have not been able to procure much information respect- 
ing the dates .of the introduction of foreign trees and shrubs into 
Ireland, though we have looked over numerous books, and 
entered into an extensive correspondence for that purpose. On 
the whole, there appears to have been comparatively few foreign 
trees planted in Ireland previously to the middle of the 18th 
century; except fruit trees, and probably some ornamental 
shrubs, as the arbutus, &c., in the gardens of the monastic 
institutions, and other religious establishments. 
A work, entitled Botanologia Universalis Hibernica, by J. 
K’Eogh, A. B., chaplain to Lord Kingston, published in 1735, 
appears to contain the names of all the foreign trees and shrubs 
that were in Ireland at that time. 
In the preface to this work, the author says: ‘* When I was 
writing on this subject, I had the advantage daily of viewing 
the gardens belonging to the Rt. Hon. James Lord Baron of 
Kingston, wherein were contained near 200 different species of 
herbs and trees. I was not acquainted with any garden which 
could show so many. This was no small advantage or con- 
veniency to forward this undertaking.” The trees and shrubs 
enumerated in K’Eogh’s work are the following : — 
*¢ Abele, about mansion-houses, for shelter; arbutus, wild in 
Kerry, and is manured in gardens; great bay; box; chestnut, 
frequently planted in gardens and parks ; cypress tree, in gar- 
dens, for its pleasant verdure; fig tree; jasminum, planted in 
gardens ; lemon tree, to be seen in the gardens of Mitchelstown, 
belonging to the Rt. Hon. Lord Kingston; medlar tree, in 
gardens; myrtle tree, it grows in my Lord Kingston’s green- 
house, Mitchelstown, and there are also hedges of it in the Lord 
Inchiquin’s gardens at Rostillon; mulberry tree, in gardens. 
** Orange trees; of late years they had been transplanted here, 
which now, by the industry and cultivation of curious gentlemen, 
are in some gardens brought to perfection. I have seen about 
