CHAP. Il. BRITISH ISLANDS. ill 
at 5 ft., 10 ft; and at 19 ft., 10 ft.; and the space covered by its 
branches is nearly 355 ft. in circumference. 
At Cypress Cee near Dublin, Mr. Mackay informs us, the 
Dowager Lady Clanbrassill resided from 1770 to 1790, during 
which period she received a number of foreign trees and shrubs 
from her son. ‘The dimensions of many of these, the present 
gardener, . Edward Carrol, bas obligingly sent us, at the re- 
quest of Mr. Mackay. The collection is numerous, and some of 
the specimens have attained a considerable size. Robinéa Pseud- 
Acacia is 60ft. high; Zatrus nobilis, 30 ft.; Juglans régia, 
70 ft.; Carpinus Bétulus, 90 ft.; Quércus Cérris, 70ft.; and 
Juniperus virginiana, 40 ft, &c. 
At Moira, according to information kindly sent us by the 
present proprietor, Sir Robert Bateson, there appear to be very 
few, if any, of the trees existing that were planted by Sir Arthur 
Rawdon, about the end of the seventeenth century (see p. 48.). 
A number are of considerable size, but their ages are un- 
known; among these are, a lime tree, which is 85 ft. high, the 
diameter of the space covered by its branches is 60 ft., and that 
of its trunk, at 1 ft. from the ground, 4 ft.; a beech, 110 ft. high, 
the diameter of the space covered by its branches being 80 ft., and 
that of its trunk, at 1 ft. from the ground, 4 ft. 4 in.; a variegated 
platanus, 50 ft. high; and a Platanus acerifolia, 70 ft. high; 
Quércus J‘lex, 45 ft. high, with a trunk 4 ft. in diameter at 1 ft. 
from the ground, and the diameter of the space covered by its 
branches, 35 ft.; a broad-léaved elm, 90 ft. high, the trunk $ ft. 
10 in. in diameter, and the diameter of the space covered by its 
branches, 60 ft.; Gleditschza triacanthos, 55 ft. high; a sweet 
chestnut, 40 ft. high; the silver fir, 90 ft. high ; and the common 
yew tree, 45ft. high, with a trunk 4 ft. in diameter, and the 
space covered by its branches being 39 ft. in diameter. 
The late John Templeton, Esq., A.L.S., was a scientific 
botanist, as well as a skilful cultivator; he was the author of 
several articles on botany, and on other branches of natural 
history, which appeared in different works, and:of some valuable 
. papers on acclimatising plants, published in the Transactions of 
the Royal Irish Academy. A very interesting account of his life, 
by Dr. Drummond, will be found in our Magazine of Natural 
History, vol. i. p. 403. It appears that Mr. Templeton had a 
country house at Malone, near Belfast, to which he gave the 
name of Crann-more, that is, Great tree, in honour of the very 
fine chestnut trees which are in front of the house, and which 
were probably planted in the 17th century: it had before been 
called Orange Grove. Mr. Templeton began to cultivate 
flowers in 1786, and he laid out an experimental garden in 1793. 
At the time of his death, which happened in 1826, there were, 
says his biographer, ‘ collected in this garden, from various 
1 
— 
