144 THE EXTRA-TROPICAL TREES OF ARRAN.  [Szss. vxx, 
EUCALYPTS. 
(Arranged in the order of hardiness.) 
There are 213 species of Eucalypts, and all, four excepted, 
are natives of Australia. All love abundance of light. The 
buds appear one year, the blossom on the next, the ripe seed 
on the third. Twelve species grow in Arran—examples of 
all at Corrie. It is of the Myrtle family (Myrtacez). 
I. Evcalyptus Gunnii.—South Australia. Height, 150 feet. 
This tree, when young, is very attractive because of the rich 
bloom upon its foliage. “The leaves then are opposite, oval, 
and blue-green. As the tree advances they become longish, 
alternate, and dark green” (Birkbeck). The flower resembles 
that of the myrtle. The tree of this species at Whitting- 
hame, Haddingtonshire, is the first Eucalypt grown in the 
open in Scotland, and was given by the late Marquis of 
Salisbury to Mr Balfour. It was also the first to bloom and 
ripen seed, and irom these plants were raised at the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. By the severe frost of 1860- 
61 the Whittinghame tree was cut to within 3 feet of the 
ground, but shoots sprang from what remained of the trunk. 
“Tt is notable that plants raised from the Whittinghame 
tree are more hardy than their parent. In the year 1894-5, 
when on two nights the mercufy sank at Whittinghame to 
zero, the young plants did not lose a leaf, while all those of 
the parent tree were destroyed ” (Garrett). 
1. Whittinghame—1895—height, about 55 feet; girth, 
12 feet 5 inches at 2 feet from the ground. 1905—height, 
70 feet ; girth, 13 feet 6 inches at 2 feet. 
2. Stonefield, Tarbert, Loch Fyne—Sown 1881. 1895— 
height, 38 feet; girth, 2 feet 3 inches at 5 feet. 1905—height, 
71 feet; girth, 4 feet 4 inches at 5 feet; spread, 30 feet. 
3. Kinloch Hourn, Inverness-shire.—Planted 1890. 1895 
—height, 15 feet; covered with buds. September 1905— 
height, 33 feet; girth, 1 foot 44 inches at 5 feet. 
4. Craigard, Lamlash.—Planted 1897 ; was eaten by a cow. 
1905—height, 9 feet 6 inches; girth, 33 inches at 1 foot. 
5. Whitefarland, N.W. of Arran.—1905—height, 19 feet. 
6. Bellfield, Kilmarnock, and Piersland, Troon. Both sown 
1904, and planted 1905. Both from the seed of a tree at 
Brightlingsea, Essex. 
