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of the same kind at the back of the gardens, girthed 13 feet at 
4 feet up. A larch tree, girthing 9 feet 4 inches, was about 
100 feet in height ; and a Scots fir 90 feet high girthed 9 feet. 
In The Dell there was a good display of the newer conifers, 
interspersed with hardwoods, and much admiration was ex- 
pressed at the judicious use which had been made of the red 
and white foxglove in the adornment of this lovely spot. 
Among the newer Conifers here were a number of beautiful 
Albert firs, one of which was 45 feet high, and girthed 3 feet 
14 inch at 5 feet up. Abzes grandis and the Douglas fir were 
growing freely, and promising to make very fine trees. 
One of the remarkable things in The Dell is a magnificent 
specimen of Rhododendron catawbiense. Rising from the 
ground in a single stem, it almost immediately parts into two, 
each about 2 feet 8 inches in girth. From these there has 
grown out a spread of branches no less than 152 feet in cir- 
cumference, with a height of 16 feet. After a pleasant ramble 
through the fine old wood growing on the height to the south 
of The Dell, where numerous tall and shapely trees, chiefly 
beech, were noted, the ground beneath being well furnished 
with thriving shrubs, principally rhododendrons, we arrived 
at the gardens, near which is the pinetum, with many fine 
specimens of the newer Conifers, including a fine row of 
Araucaria imbricata, averaging over 30 feet in height and 
4 feet in girth at 5 feet up. Among the finest of the conifers 
were the following specimens, for the dimensions of which we 
were indebted to Mr Henderson, the gardener at Balbirnie :— 
CoNIFERS AT BALBIRNIE. 
Botanical Name. Height. Girth at 5 feet up. 
feet. ft. ins. 
Abies Albertiana, . 3 : 43 4 0 
» grandis, : : : 60 4 9 
ee ManinNda, . : mail 33 3 4 
», nobilis, : d ‘ie 46 6 0 
», Nordmaniiana, . bai 36 3 0 
» orientalis, 5 el 32 4 8 
Cedrus atlantica, . ; ; 34 4 ii 
a Deodara, : : 39 5 0 
3,  LAbant, : F ¢ 50 5 7 
Cupressus Lawsoniana, . ; 28 1 6 
Pinus Cembra, . ; : 36 3 9 
Taxodium sempervirens, : 40 7 0 
Some splendid specimens of golden hollies were also seen, 
about 50 feet high, with a stem girthing 4 feet 11 inches at 
