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Conspicuous amongst trees at The Caimies, 

 Perthshire, are the two magnificent specimens 

 of the tree which bear the name of the late 

 Prince Consort — Abies Albertiana. The seeds 

 were sent to this country by Jeffrey in his 

 first Oregon expedition of 1850, and some of 

 the earhest cones were sown by Mr. Patton, 

 of The Caimies, in the following year. The 

 tree was at first kno\\'n under a variety of 

 names, but on a photograph of the two best 

 ones at The Caimies being shown to Her Majesty, 

 after they were a few years old, she expressed a 

 desire that the tree might be called Abies Alberti- 

 ana, in memory of the late Prince Albert — a 

 name by which the tree is now universally known. 

 The two at The Cairnies are not only grand 

 specimens, but they are acknowledged to be the 

 best trees of the kind in the countr^^ Growing 

 at an altitude of 660 feet on a poor, thin, moorish 

 soil, with a subsoil of hard, retentive clay, and 

 wdth a southern exposure, they have thriven 

 amazingly, withstanding all the ravages of the 

 late very severe w^inters. One of these trees, 

 known as " The Victoria Tree,'' was partly blown 

 over about two years ago. It girths 5 feet 10 

 inches at 5 feet from the ground. At Craigo 

 A. Albertiana is 94 feet high and 7 feet 9 inches 

 in girth of stem at a yard up. 



T. BRUNONIANA, Carriere. (Synonyms : Pinus 

 dumosa, Don ; Pinus Brunoniana, Wallich ; 

 Abies Brunoniana, Lindley ; Abies dumosa, 

 Loudon ; A. cedroides, Griffith.) Eastern and 

 Central Himalayas. 1838. — This may rightly be 

 described as the handsomest of the genus, though. 



