Pinus 



1083 



By whom measured. 

 H. J. Elwes. A very fine tree, 



painted by Mr. Short. 

 C. Page. 

 H. J. Elwes. 

 A. Henry. 

 H. J. Elwes. Very clean stem to 



35 ft. ; not spreading. 

 H. J. Elwes. Raised about 1855 



from seed of tree by house. 

 H. J. Elwes. Large branches coming 



off at 5 ft. 

 A Henry. 

 A. B. Jackson. 

 H. Clinton Baker. 

 Sir Hugh Beevor. 

 J. Mullins. 

 H. J. Elwes. Healthy in this cold 



county three to four miles from 



the sea. 

 H. J. Elwes. 

 H. J. Elwes. Large branches come 



off at 5 ft. ; 72 paces round. 



At Dropmore 3 trees from cuttings planted in 1839, treated exactly the same 

 way as seedlings put out in the same year, were in 1882 somewhat smaller in height 

 and in girth. At White Knights, Reading, a tree eighteen years old, from seed, 

 measured in 1904, 52 ft. high by 4 ft. in girth. At Highnam Court, Gloucester, 

 there are two trees, one with short leaves and small cones, which measured in 1906, 

 54 ft. by 8 ft. 4 in. The other, with much larger cones and larger leaves, was 56 ft. 

 by 4 ft. 7 in. At Bicton a remarkable specimen, 75 ft. high and about 15 ft. in girth 

 near the ground, dividing into many large branches higher up, was measured by me 

 in 1902. A large tree at Longford Castle, planted in 1845 and growing on yellow 

 loam close to the river Avon, in 1893 was 60 ft. high and 15^ ft. in girth at a foot 

 from the ground, dividing above into eleven great branches. 4 Now it is about 65 ft. 

 high and 75 ft. in diameter, perfectly healthy, and unhurt by frost. There are several 

 fine trees at Osborne. 



In Scotland this species was killed 5 in many places in the severe winter of 1860- 

 186 1 ; and has not thriven subsequently in other places, as it is a failure at Glamis 

 Castle, Forfarshire, and at Murthly, Perthshire. At Hopetoun, Linlithgowshire, the 

 best specimen was killed in i860, and a survivor was so much injured by the frost 

 of 1879-80 that it was cut down in 1881. Similarly in the north of England, at 

 Lambton Park, Co. Durham, it has been repeatedly tried and failed. 



The Monterey pine, however, thrives on the west coast of Scotland ; and a tree 

 planted at Monreith, Wigtownshire, in 1884 was 63 ft. high by 5 ft. in girth in 1908. 



1 A tree at Essendon Place, perhaps the same as this, measured, in 1866, 50 ft. high by 24 ft. in diameter, according to 

 Gard. Chron. 1866, p. 950. 



2 Gard. Chron. ix. 108, fig. 23 (1878). 



3 Cf. Hutchison, in Trans. Highland and Agric. Soc. Scotland, xiv. 59 (1882). Mr. Frost expressed the opinion that 

 cuttings of this pine throve as well as seedlings. 



* Gard. Chron. xiv. 725 (1893). 6 Cf. Hutchison, op. cit. 58. 



