210 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The park of Fromont, at Ris (Seine and Oise), which belongs to 
the Chevalier Soulange-Bodin, occupies a hill-side exposed to the 
north, and which extends to the banks of the Seine. The soil on 
the hill-side is of good free texture, on a calcareous rocky subsoil ; 
in the valley the soil is deep, but it is sandy, flinty, and very poor. 
There are, near the castle on the hill-side, two cedars planted in 
1813, which, when measured on the 31st of July 1844, were—No. 
1, 7 feet 3 inches in girth, and No. 2, 6 feet 2 inches; the 
thickest was well branched, but did not appear to me to be more 
than 55 feet in height, and the smallest 65 feet. Other cedars 
had been planted ten years later, some singly, others in clumps. 
Those which were in the middle of the park, that is to say, in the 
most fertile soil, and which stood alone, girthed from 5 feet to 
5 feet 6 inches ; and those grown in a confined state in the same 
soil, girthed from 3 feet 6 inches to 4 feet, and about 50 feet in 
height. Those on the highest part of the hill-side, where the 
calcareous rock is nearest the surface, are grown close together, 
and girthed from 3 feet to 4 feet, with a height of about 55 feet. 
Lastly, those in the valley on the bad soil, and which stood alone, 
girthed from 4 feet to 4 feet 6 inches, and from 3 feet to 4 feet 
where they stood close together. The firs and pines, planted at 
the same time as the cedars, were far from having attained similar 
girths, and their height in clumps was also less, 
M. Guy’s garden is situated upon a hill-side exposed to the 
south-east, the soil has little depth, and the subsoil is a calcareous 
stone, impenetrable by roots ; but in some places they have laid 
down rubbish from the buildings pulled down in St Germains, 
where they use plaster for building, the same as in Paris. Thus 
this forced earth, upon which twenty-two cedars have been planted, 
is of pretty much the same nature as the soil of the labyrinth in 
which the cedar in the Jardin des Plantes is growing. It is 
noticed that the cedar succeeds well here in such soil, and the 
Pinus Laricio does middling, while the silver fir, Scots fir, and 
larch are stunted, and the Weymouth pine does not do at all. 
M. Guy, the father of the present proprietor, made the garden in 
1775, and the cedars date from about that time. Several cedars 
standing alone were, when I measured them on the 12th of 
August 1844, more than 6 feet 6 inches in girth, the largest 
being 7 feet 6 inches; and their height was from 40 feet to 50 
feet. The cedars which were grown close together were less 
thick, but they were taller. They appeared to be from 65 feet 
