1160 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



sent to Europe by Dr. Wallich in 1824." Though it has been planted at many 

 places since that date, it has never become common in cultivation, and evidently 

 requires, in order to succeed, a warmer climate than most parts of England 

 afford. 



Lawson quotes Palmer's tables to the effect that, in the winter of 1 860-6 1, out 

 of 52 specimens in England, 34 were killed, 9 much injured, 2 slightly injured, and 

 only 7 unhurt. In Scotland and Ireland the results were very similar. Rarely, 

 except in the south of England or near the sea, and in Ireland, where severe frosts 

 have less effect, are trees of any size to be found. 2 



Remarkable Trees 



The largest that we know of at present is in the grounds at Killerton, where 

 there is a fine tree of about 65 ft. by 5 ft. 4 in., which when seen in 1905 was very 

 thriving. 



There is a fine avenue of C. torulosa at Cuffnells, near Lyndhurst, Hants 

 (Plate 294), which, I am informed by Mr. Hargreaves, were raised from seed brought 

 from India by Mr. C. Harland in i860. This avenue consists of nine trees on each 

 side of a walk, which are very regular in habit, and measure about 45 ft. by 4^ ft. 

 They bore fruit in October 1907. 



Mr. A. B. Jackson measured several trees in a plantation at Tregothnan, about 

 40 to 45 ft. by 3 ft., in 1909 ; and two trees at Pencarrow, which are 48 ft. by 4 ft. 

 8 in. and 35 ft. by 4 ft. 1 in. At Heanton-Satchville, North Devon, I measured, in 

 1905, a tree, about 45 ft. high and 3 ft. 5 in. in girth, dividing into three stems at 

 10 ft. from the ground, and forming a dense pyramid of foliage. At Haldon House, 

 Exeter, a tree, which I saw in April 1908, measured 46 ft. At Melbury there is a 

 tall fine tree of var. Corneyana, bearing fruit near the summit, which was 65 ft. by 

 4 ft. 11 in. in 1908. 



At Eastnor Castle there is a tree 39 ft. high by 3 ft. 1 in. in girth, measured by 

 Mr. Mullins in 1909. At Hewell Grange, Redditch, there are four trees of this 

 species, the largest of which, measured by me in 1909, was 56 ft. high by 3 ft. 11 in. 

 in girth. It is almost fastigiate in habit. These trees are growing at 530 ft. 

 elevation, on sloping ground, exposed to the south-west. At Woburn there is a 

 tree about 30 ft. in height ; and Mr. J. M. Rogers has sent specimens from a tree at 

 Riverhill, near Sevenoaks, about 40 ft. high. 



In Ireland, the best specimen which we have seen is at Fota, and measured 

 56 ft. by 7 ft. in 1908. Another at Powerscourt is 27 ft. by 3 ft. 4 in. 



In the nursery of Rovelli Freres, at Pallanza, I measured in 1906 a very 



1 Wallich sent seeds again in 1836 ; and Loudon, in Gard. Mag. xvi. 586 (1840), mentions a large stock of plants at 

 Cullis's nursery at Leamington in 1840. Considerable quantities of seed of this cypress, as well as of the deodar, were 

 imported in 1853 from the Himalayas by the Commissioners of Woods. 



* According to Gard. Chron. 1868, pp. 152, 465, plants of C. torulosa were killed at Dropmore and Gunnersbury Park 

 in the severe winter of 1867-68. According to Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 8, the severe frost of 26th January to 22nd 

 February 1895, when the thermometer fell at Kew on two occasions to 1 and 2 Fahr., proved fatal to C. torulosa and O 

 lusitanua, while C. sempet virens and C. macrocarpa were badly injured. 



