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TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF [Sess. lti. 



retlected in the girth-increase, which fell from 080 in 1888 

 to 0-40 in 1889, and rose to only 0-65 in 1891. 



Xo. 66 also suffered from transplantation in autumn 

 1887. It looked very shabby in 1888, gradually improved 

 thereafter, and has now, in 1891, nearly recovered a thoroughly 

 vifforous look. The girth-increase, fallino; from 0'95 in 1887 

 to 0'45 in 1888, sprang up at once in 1889 to 1'20, not- 

 withstanding the continuing shabby look of the tree, 



Xo. 99 does not appear from the measurement to be 

 much older than the others, but probably is so, the girth 

 having been taken higher up, and the tree being altogether 

 much larger. Its rate, 1*15, is more reliable, as this tree 

 lias not been recently disturbed, but the progenitor of them 

 all, which formerly stood on " the Triangle," must have had 

 a rate of 1'56 for its first thirty-seven years of life ; in the 

 next four years, 1875-78, when about 5^ feet in girth. Sir 

 R. Christison found it still increasing at the fair rate of 0"77 ; 

 but, perhaps from the effects of the following severe winters, 

 it gradually became a wreck, the rate for nine years fell to 

 0"22, and it was cut down. 



Another Ahics Dourjlasii, No. 08, has never rallied from 

 transplantation in spring 1887, and is apparently dying. 



AniES LOWIANA. 



Both in the collection of Ahics, Botanic Garden. 



No. 8 has always been healthy, and clothed with dense 

 foliage to the ground, and has grown at the great rate of 

 1-78, with the low range of 1-50 to 1'95. This was at 2 

 feet from the ground, Ijut I was surprised to find from three 

 years' measurements that at 5 feet al)0vc ground the rate was 

 even greater, amounting to 1"90, and in 1890 it grew 2'25, 

 the largest year's growtli I have ever recorded in any tree. 



No. 92, an equally fine specimen in 1887 and 1888, 

 promised to do quite as well, l)ut being moved, its rate fell 

 from an average of 1'80 in tliese two years to 0'.'30 in 1889, 



