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IiATE OF Giuth-Inci;ease. 



The only apparently reliable rate of girth-increase in the 

 holly that I can find is given below. If the reputed age 

 of other trees in j\Ir. Hutchison's list were reliable, they 

 would yield a much slower rate, but the one I give is the 

 only instance in which the date of planting is positively 

 stated. 



II. The Evekgreen Oak (Qucrcus Ilai). 



One at Castle-Kennedy, Wigtownshire, girths 15 feet at 

 1 foot; 14 feet at 3 feet; 15 feet at 5 feet; is 48 feet 

 high, and the circumference of foliage is 186 feet (]\Ir. W. 

 Cruden, gardener, 1893). 



Another at Burghill, Hereford, girthed feet 10 inches 

 at 5 feet, was 50 feet high, and had a branch spread of 

 G3 feet (Trans. Woolhope Club, 1870). 



Eate of an evergreen oak, Edinburgh Botanical Garden, 

 injured by severe winter of 1878, — 46-60 inches in girth 



