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short ; the three limbs, 4 feet from the fork, girthed 5 feet 

 8 inches, 4 feet 1 inch, and 3 feet 7 inches ; height, 6 2 

 feet; branch spread 57 feet (Mr. A. D. Webster, 1889). 



In Ireland, one at Powerscourt, Wicklow, blown down 

 18G8, girthed 12 feet 8 inches at 3 feet up, the narrowest ; 

 height, 75 feet (Mr. M. Dunn). 



Eates from girth measurements at 5 feet up (D. Christison). 



XIII. The Willow {Salix). 



I have not seen any account of a large Scottish willow. 

 A decaying short-stemmed one in the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden measures 17 feet at the ground and at 1 foot 

 above it, and 18 feet at 2 feet, where the branches are 

 given oft". The species grow to a great size in the English 

 Midlands, but I have met with few records of the girths of 

 great English willows. 



Haveksholme Peiory. — Girth at 1 foot, 27 feet 4 

 inches; 4 feet, 20 feet 5 inches; 7 feet, 28 feet. Height, 

 40 feet. 



Abbots Willow, Bury St. Edmunds, — Girth, 18 feet 

 6 inches, probably at narrowest; two limbs 15 feet and 

 12 feet. Height, 75 feet (Strutt). 



Eates — 1 and 3, Edinburgh Botanical Garden; 2, Anuat 

 Lodge, Perth. 



Xo. 



1. Salix, Sp., . 



2. S. Sraithiana, 



3. S. alba, . 



Authority. 



D. Cliristison 



Dr. Buclianan White 



Dr. Walker 



XIY. The Alder (Alnus glutinosa). 

 "1 had in 1760 a headed alder in my park at Heving- 

 ham, Norfolk, 16 feet 2\ inches in girth at 4 feet up" 

 (Mr. E. ]\Iarsham). 



