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tree at Cashiobury ; and several at White Knights, one of which, 16 ft. high, 
has ripened seeds. At Farnham Castle, in Hampshire, one 10 years planted 
is 16 ft. high; and at Cobham Hall, in Kent, one 16 years planted is 20 ft. 
high. The largest M. c. Soulangedva in the neighbourhood of London is in 
Brown’s Nursery at Slough, where it has attained the height of 15 ft. in less 
than ten years, and is thought by Mr. Brown to be rather more hardy than 
M. conspicua. At High Clere, on an elevated exposed situation, M. c. Sou- 
langedna has attained the height of 7 ft. 6 in. in 4 years, as a standard. 
M. conspicua grows freely, against a wall, in all the low districts of Scotland ; 
and, as a standard, in the neighbourhood of Dublin. In the neighbourhood 
of Paris, the largest plant of M. conspicua is at Fromont. It measured, in 
1835, 40 ft. high ; aid the circumference of the trunk, at 2 ft. from the ground, 
‘was more than 2 ft.; and the diameter of the space covered by the branches 
is 24ft.; it flowers magnificently every year, at the end of March and be- 
