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ribrum, of the same age, 44 ft.; a Pavia flava, of the same age, 
$1 ft.; a Sophora japonica, 50 years planted, 35 ft.; an Aris- 
totelia Mdcgui, 20 years planted, upwards of 16 ft., though on a 
strong clayey soil; the d’rbutus Andrachne seems to grow at the 
rate of 1 ft. a year; the Portugal laurel, 50 years planted, has 
attained the height of 35 ft., and its branches cover a space the 
diameter of which is 45 ft.; the common laurel, of the same age, 
is 40 ft. high, and its branches cover a space of 36 ft. in diameter; 
Populus canadensis, 40 years planted, is 72 ft. high: A’Inus 
laciniata, 34 years planted, is 44 ft. high ; Quércus palistris, 50 
years planted, is 41 ft. high; and Q. fastigidta, of the same 
age, is 54 ft. high; Q. exoniénsis, 60 years planted, is 67 ft. high; 
and Q. Z’gilops, of the same age, is 55 ft. high; the purple 
beech, 55 years planted, is 54 ft. high; and that beautiful variety 
of the common beech, Fagus sylvatica péndula, at 35 years’ 
growth, is 33 ft. high; the arbor vita, 30 years planted, is 30 ft. 
high; the Pinus Cémbra, of the same age, 34 ft. high; the hem- 
lock spruce, 35 years planted, 32 ft. high; the Cunninghame 
Janceolata, in 12 years, 7 ft. high; the Zarix péndula, in 55 
years, 62 ft.; the cedar of Lebanon, in 35 years, 33 ft.; and 
that singularly picturesque, and yet elegant, tree, the cedar of 
Goa (Cupréssus lusitanica), 32 ft. high, the branches covering a 
space of 35 ft. in diameter, in 24 years. This cedar was origin- 
ally brought from the Portuguese settlement at Goa, in the East 
Indies, to Portugal; and the seeds were brought from that 
country to Ireland by Lord Ferrard in 1809; and, being sown, 
produced abundantly. The plants were first kept in a green- 
house; but, on some of them being transplanted into the open air 
from want of room, they were found to grow so vigorously, that 
in three seasons any one branch surpassed in size the entire 
plant contained in the green-house. A Rhododéndron pénticum, 
at 60 years of age, is 16 ft. high, and the diameter of the space 
— by its branches is 38 ft. There was a tree peony here 
of extraordinary dimensions. It was 12 ft. high, and was pro- 
tected during winter by a glass case. About the year 1827 this 
case was left off, to try to inure the plant to stand without cover- 
ing, but the winter unfortunately proving severe, it was killed. 
At Antrim Castle, also the seat of Lord Ferrard, are some 
remarkably fine trees and shrubs. There is a yew tree, estimated 
at 200 years old, which is 35 ft. high; the diameter of the trunk, 
at 1 ft. from the ground, is 2 ft. 9in.; and the diameter of the 
space covered by its branches, 33 ft. There is a Portugal laurel 
‘150 years planted, which is only 18 ft. high: but the diameter of 
its trunk, at 1 ft. from the ground, is $ ft. 7 in.; and that of the 
space covered by its branches, 36 ft. There are an evergreen oak 
100 years old and 25 ft. high; and a variegated holly of the 
same age, 20 ft. high. There are a juniper 18 ft., at 90 years of 
age; and an arbor yite 24 ft. high, at the same age. 
