92 DWAEF AND SLOW-GBOWING CONIFERS 



House, the seat of Viscount de Vesci, in this county, send 

 out occasional arborescent side branches which are 

 removed. The plant is sterile, and Loudon (" Trees and 

 Shrubs," 2259) suggested it was not a seedhng form but 

 propagated from a " witches'-broom." Elwes and Henry, 

 however, state (vol. vi.) that it has been found grow- 

 ing wild in Thuringia and Sweden. The arborescent 

 branchlets of the TuUymore plant are yellow, not white; 

 and this is curious, as at the neighbouring garden of 

 Castlewellan are two old specimens said to have come 

 originally from Tullymore, and similar in every respect 

 to that plant save that one of them has yellow branchlets 

 and the other white. The specimen at Kew is 5 feet 

 6 inches, and three of the old specimens at Abbeyleix 

 measure respectively 4 feet 6 inches by 8J feet, 4 feet 

 by 5 feet, and 3 J feet by 5 feet. 



P. excelsa, var. Clanbrasiliana stricta. 



Syn. : Abies excelsa Clanbrasiliana, var. stricta, Loud. 

 (" Trees and Shrubs," 2295; 1838). 

 This interesting form was first recorded by Loudon, who 

 states that it was found in the park at Florence Court, 

 Co. Fermanagh (the seat of the Earl of Enniskillen), by 

 Mr. Young, the gardener there, who, in 1 834, sent Loudon 

 a specimen to see. Loudon described it as having a clear 

 stem about 1 foot high, surmounted by a head, making a 

 narrow, ovate conical bush with shoots of upright and 

 more rapid growth. Specimens of this form were also 

 sent to one or two private gardens, and it is quoted for 

 sale in nurserymen's Usts up to, at any rate, 1876. But 

 the name is no longer to be found in any catalogue, and 

 enquiries made at Florence Court failed to ehcit any 

 satisfactory information, and I was under the impression 

 that this form was no longer in cultivation, when I received 

 a specimen of it from a very old-established EngHsh 

 nursery under the name of var. pygmcea. Of all forms of 

 P. excelsa, I have long since discovered that catalogue 



