1084 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



At Castle Kennedy there are two trees, which girthed in 1904, 9 ft. 4 in. and 8 ft. 

 6 in., both being 68 ft. in height At Bargaly, Kirkcudbright, a tree was 75 ft. by 

 11 ft. 8 in., in 1904. At Keir, Perthshire, there is a healthy tree, although it has 

 never borne cones, which measured in 1905, 73 ft. by 11 ft. 



This species thrives amazingly in most parts of Ireland. The finest specimens 

 which we have seen are as follows : 



The Monterey pine has been largely planted on the Pacific coast as far north 

 as Washington, and as a rule has been successful. It thrives well near the coast at 

 San Francisco ; but requires careful watering in the arboretum of the Stanford 

 University in the Santa Clara valley. 



It has been largely planted of late years in South Africa, but is only climatically 

 suited to the winter rainfall districts, and the wholesale planting of the tree in Natal 

 and the Transvaal has produced disappointment. 4 According to Mr. J. S. Lister, 

 Conservator of Forests, the average annual increment per acre of ten-year-old trees 

 has been no less than 526 ft., as compared with 152 ft. for Blue Gum and 203 ft. for 

 Pinus Pinaster. Lately the leaves have been injured by the larva of a moth, 

 Antheraa cytherea. 



In New Zealand, 6 no other tree approaches this species in rapidity of growth, 

 and even should it be found that the timber is not of a durable kind, the rate at 

 which it is produced will render it profitable to grow. Mr. T. W. Adams says that 

 his experience of the wood grown in New Zealand satisfies him that it will prove 

 valuable for many purposes. 



In Madeira, as I am informed by Dr. Watney, it grows with extraordinary 

 rapidity. A tree at Camacha, sown in situ in 1883, measured in 1907, 99 ft. high, 

 and about 8 ft. in girth at the base. (H. J. E.) 



1 Here trees about ten years old and 10 to 23 ft. in height were killed in the severe winter of 1879-80. Cf. Hutchison, 

 op. cit. 64. 



* Seedlings have been raised from home-grown seed at Powerscourt 



3 This tree was reported, no doubt erroneously, by the gardener, H. Lynch, to have been 98 ft. high in 1878. Cf. Gard. 

 Chron. xv. 21 (1 894). 



* Hutch ins, in Flint and Gilchrist, Science in South Africa, 396 (1905). 



6 In Agric. Journ. Cape of Good Hope, xxii. 447 (1903), and in Rep. Consent. Forests, 1899, p. 93, app. N. 

 6 Adams, lot. cit. 



