Dec. 1905.] THE EXTRA-TROPICAL TREES OF ARRAN, 139 
Edinburgh, young plants were raised, one of which was 
kindly presented to the writer. It was planted in a sheltered 
corner on the north side of Cromla House, the parent growing 
in a similar corner on the south. Being from home-grown 
spores, it ought to be more hardy than the other ; but, being 
on the north side, it will contend with more cold. The 
measurements of both are given. 
1. Cromla, Corrie—Sown 1864 (not 1854, as printed in my 
former paper). Planted 1867. 1895—height of stem, 2 feet; 
girth, 2 feet 10 inches at 1 foot; length of frond, 7 feet 
3 inches. 1905—height of stem, 3 feet 10 inches; girth, 
2 feet 44 inches at 3 feet; length of fronds, from 6 feet 
84 inches to 7 feet 6 inches. 
2. Cromla, Corrie—Seedling. Sown 1892. 1905—height 
of stem, 5 inches; girth, 104 inches at 3 inches; length 
of fronds, 3 feet 64 inches; breadth of fronds, 1 foot 
2 inches. . 
Cromla garden is on the coast, and separated from the 
sea at high tide by only the breadth of the highway. It is 
open to the south, sheltered on the west and north, seemingly 
exposed to the east wind; but the high mountains behind it 
lift up this wind before it reaches the coast. The sea suddenly 
becomes deep near the land, and thus is the better frost 
defender. 
PALMS. 
“The palm is the pride of trupical vegetation.” It grows 
in Arran better than in any other place in Scotland. 
A tree-fern growing in the open air in Scotland would 
have amazed our fathers. That a palm should thrive ,would 
have been considered an impossibility. Palms are of two 
kinds—the feather and the fan—names denoting the form 
of their fronds. Not one of the former has as yet succeeded 
in Scotland, but several of the latter. In the spring of this 
year (1905) I visited Egypt, and in a botanic garden at 
Cairo, among other species of palms, I found duly labelled 
three of Chamerops excelsa, a species which grows in Arran. 
To my great surprise, except in height, they were much 
inferior to those of Arran. While about 20 feet in height, 
their girth was only 1 foot 54 inches at 5 feet from the ground, 
