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the others. At Albury, Sussex, there is one over loo feet high by only 6 feet 

 9 inches in girth. At Highclere, Berks, in Great Pen wood, on sandy soil, are the 

 best plantation Laricios which I have seen. At about 70 years old they measure 

 about 90 feet high by 7 to 8 feet in girth, and have clean boles for about half their 

 height : several of these, however, are forked at some distance from the ground. 

 At Bayfordbury there is a tree which in 1906 was 94 feet by 8 feet 7 inches, and 

 in many other places we have seen specimens 80 to 90 feet high, which need not be 

 specially mentioned. 



Austrian Pine. Ofthe Austrian pine we have seen no specimens in England 

 which rival the Corsican in height, though at Wolterton Park, Norfolk, the seat of 

 the Earl of Orford, there are two large trees about 85 by ()\ feet, which show the 

 characteristic difference in habit and in the colour of the leaves very clearly. From 

 Grigor's account of this place in the Eastern Arboretum, p. 114, they seem to have 

 been planted before 1840. Among the largest is a large spreading tree of this type 

 at Nuneham Park, the seat of the Right Honourable L. Harcourt. Another at 

 Canford Manor, Dorset, measured 83 feet by 9 feet ; and at Williamstrip Park, on 

 rather heavy soil, which this tree by no means seems to dislike, there is one of 

 nearly the same dimensions, the largest I know in Gloucestershire. 



Var. Pallasiana. The best authentic specimen I know is a fine tree at 

 Elveden, Suffolk, the property of Lord Iveagh. It is a flourishing tree with the 

 foliage and cones of the Austrian variety, and measured when I saw it in 1907 

 94 feet by 8 feet 3 inches (Plate 118). Prof. A. Newton of Cambridge informs me 

 that this tree was raised from seed sent by his eldest brother General Newton ofthe 

 Coldstream Guards from Balaclava in 1854. The parent tree stood in a garden, 

 which was used as a cemetery during the early days of the occupation of the Crimea. 

 In the historic gale of 14th November 1854 the tree was blown down, and the 

 graves covered with rubbish, and a cone was sent home in memoriam. 



Other noteworthy trees are as follows : 



At Dropmore . . 108 feet by 11 feet 5 inches fide A. Henry, 1904. 



Beauport . . . 85 by 11 5 



Penrhyn . . . 95 by 1 1 4 



,, Smeaton- Hepburn . 64 ,, by 6 ,, 5 ,, ,, 1905- 



At Chiswick House there is a good-sized tree, remarkable for having an 

 immense growth of the character of what is usually called " witches' broom." 



M. Gadeau de Kerville has figured ^ a very fine example of this pine, which was 

 considered to be of the Calabrian variety by M. L. Corbiere (though this identifica- 

 tion seems to me somewhat uncertain), which measured in 1894 35 metres (about 

 no feet) high and 3.84 metres in girth. This tree is growing at Vatimesnil (Eure) 

 in the park of M. de Vatimesnil, who believes it to have been planted by his ancestor 

 about the year 1780. If this is correct, it is the oldest and probably the largest 

 planted tree of the species either in France or England. 



' Les vieux arbres de la NormandU, fasc. iii. p. 317, plate ix. 



