1022 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



A splendid tree at Danesbury, near Welwyn, Herts, measured 90 ft. by 10 ft. 

 4 in. in 1907, and produced cones for the first time in 1897. There are several 

 other good specimens in the same county ; two trees at Brickendon Grange, the 

 larger of which was 49 ft. by 4 ft. 10 in. in 1906, when it bore cones; another at 

 Bayfordbury which measured 64 ft by 7 ft. 3 in. in 1905, and has borne cones of 

 late years. 



At Nuneham Park, Oxford, a fine tree measured 75 ft. high and 10 ft. 9 in. in 

 girth in 1906. Mr. H. Clinton-Baker in 1907 saw a tree at Flitwick Manor, Bedford, 

 72 ft by 7 ft. 6 in., which was bearing numerous young cones. 



Sir Hugh Beevor reports a tree at Fulmodestone, Norfolk, said to have been 

 planted about 1851, which was 60 ft. by 6 ft. 5 in. in 1903. A tree 1 at Barton, 

 Suffolk, measured 65 ft. by 10 ft. in 1905. 



The best specimen in Kew Gardens measured 63 ft. by 4 ft. 7 in. in 1903. 



A fine tree, measuring 74 ft. by 7^ ft. in 1908 when it produced cones, grows in 

 the grounds of Bowood Park, Wilts, the seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne. It is 

 said to have been planted about the year 1838. 



The following were the only trees of the species mentioned in the reports 2 

 sent to the Conifer Conference in 1891 : Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, forty- 

 three years old, 50 ft. high, 6 ft. 8 in. in girth ; Poltalloch, Argyllshire, 45 ft. high, 

 9 ft. in girth, said to be growing vigorously. 



Murray reported 8 in i860 that a fine tree, now no longer living, in the Keillour 

 Pinetum, had produced cones for several years past. This is remarkable, if true, as 

 this species, rare in Scotland, appears to bear fruit only in the south of England. 



In Ireland it is not common, the best I know of being a tree at Woodstock, 

 which in 1909 was 62 ft. by 6 ft. 



A tree in the Wellesley Pinetum, 4 Massachusetts, U.S.A., was 27 ft. high 

 in 1905 ; but Sargent says that although hardy as far north as Boston, it is not 

 worth growing in New England except as a curiosity. (H. J. E.) 



PINUS MONTICOLA, Western White Pine 



Pinus monticola, Don, in Lambert, Genus Pinus, ii. t. 81 (1832), and iii. t. 87 (1837); Loudon, 

 Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2291 (1838); Sargent, Silva N. Amer. xi. 23, tt. 540, 541 (1897), 

 and Trees N. Amer. 5 (1905); Kent, Veitch's Man. Conifera, 349 (1900); Masters, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxv. 580 (1904); Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. i. 36 (1909). 



Pinus Strobus, Linnaeus, var. monticola, Nuttall, Sylva, iii. 118 (1849). 



Pinus porphyrocarpa, Murray, in Lawson, Pinetum Brit. i. 83, ff. 1-8 (1884). 



Pinus Grozelieri, Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1869, p. 126, f. 31. 



A tree, usually attaining in America 100 ft. in height and 15 ft. in girth, rarely 

 as high as 150 ft., with a trunk 25 ft. in girth. Bark of young stems and branches 

 thin, smooth, and light grey, becoming on old trees i in. in thickness and divided 



1 There is no record of this tree in Bunbury, Arboretum Notes. 



* Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 492, 503 (1892). A tree at Keir, Perthshire, incorrectly reported (ibid. 531) to be P. 

 Lambertiana, turns out to be P. Strobus. 



5 In Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vi. 370 (i860). 4 Sargent, Pin. Wellesley, to (1905). 



