Dec. 1905.] THE EXTRA-TROPICAL TREES OF ARRAN. 143 
the previous, it enjoys the best of health and thrives as if still 
crowing in its native home in the Antipodes. In the early 
summer of 1901 it began to exhibit its speciality. I then 
saw what I took to be little blades of grass growing at the 
cleft where the stem bifurcates. To my great surprise, I 
afterwards discovered that these were tiny leaves of the 
Cordyline. Now, at the end of four years, they have 
developed into a central stem which may be expected rapidly 
to rise in height—a young tree growing erect from the top 
of an old tree! As it is well seen from the public road, 
walkers will not only seea New Zealand tree, but one that 
has grown in New Zealand, and also a style of growth which 
is to be seen at no other place in Scotland. There was 
formerly a good example at Erichtbank, Kirn, but the tree 
was almost destroyed by the frost of 1894-5, The whole 
stem is now clothed with young shoots. The Corrie example 
bloomed in 1902; but, unlike the South Park tree, its fallen 
seed never germinates in the ground beneath. This Cromla 
Veitchit was the only Cordyline in Arran uninjured by the 
frost of 1894-5. 
III. Cordyline australis, var. indivisa lineata. — There 
are two of this variety at Cromla. The largest was sown in 
1872 and planted in 1874, while the other was brought from 
Canterbury, New Zealand, along with the Veitchii. Both 
had their bark, on the side exposed to the early sun, split 
for several feet by the frost of 1894-5. This has never 
healed. The crown of the larger is as yet little affected, but, 
as if in preparation for it to fail, a young stem has sprung 
at the foot of the rent. The other is more injured. 
1. Cromla (largest).—1895—height, 22 feet 8 inches; girth, 
2 feet 1 inch at 5 feet. 1905—cirth, 2 feet 7 inches at 
5 feet, 4 feet at base; four magnificent bunches of flowers 
in 1905, 
2. Whitefarland, west of Arran (north garden).—Planted 
1895. 1905—height about 20 feet. 
IV. Cordyline australis indivisa,—Alpine House, Corrie.— 
Planted 1897. Then 2 feet in height. 1905—height, 15 feet 
4} inches ; girth, 1 foot 34 inches at 5 feet—at base, 1 foot 
8 inches, 
