1290 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



growth, having attained 9 ft. high in twelve years. This was propagated by 

 Messrs. Loddiges, and may be the origin of some of the trees now in cultivation. 



(A. H.) 



Remarkable Trees 



Of the typical form, we have identified the following, but it is probable that 

 other trees exist which we have overlooked. 



A tree at Ham Manor, Sussex, forking near the ground, and carrying its leaves 

 until after mid-winter. In 1907 it was about 45 ft. high. 



A tree at Nuneham Park, with bark like that of the common oak on which 

 it is grafted, measured by Henry in 1907, 48 ft. by 4 ft. 4 in. A tree in the 

 Wilderness at White Knights, grafted on the common oak and not showing much 

 of the Ilex character in the bark, measured by me in 1907, when it was 52 ft. 

 by 6 ft. 10 in. above the graft. At Bayfordbury a tree said to have been 

 planted in 1837 with Ilex-like bark, 40 ft. by 3 ft. At Henham Hall, Sussex, a tree 

 50 ft. by 8 ft. At Lyndon, a tree 53 ft. by 6 ft. grafted near the ground on the 

 common oak and showing no trace of the Ilex parentage in the bark. 



A small tree in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, is the only one we 

 have seen in Scotland; but Mr. Bean mentions one 45 ft. high in 1906, which 

 he saw at Kinfauns Castle, Perthshire. 



In Ireland there is a tree at Oriel Temple with typical Ilex-like bark, which 

 in 1908 was 48 ft. by 4 ft. with a bole about 20 ft. high. 



Of the pseudoturneri form the best specimen we know of is at Syon, a 

 tree 62 ft. by 4 ft. 4 in., having a clean bole of considerable height injured on 

 one side. At Kew there are several trees of which the largest measures ^7 ft. by 

 5 ft. Their history is unknown and they were unnamed before 1880. In the 

 Sawbridgeworth Nursery there are two trees believed to have been propagated 

 from the original tree by grafting on the common oak. The larger of these 

 measured in 1908 about 50 ft. by 5 ft., and on June 4th had a good many of the 

 previous year's leaves still on it. The other tree, growing in a beech hedge, is 

 much more stunted, and had no old leaves left on it, but was flowering profusely. 

 We have specimens of this form from trees growing at Eastnor Castle ; from 

 Alnwick sent by Miss Manders ; and from Monreith. I also found a tree at 

 Castlewellan in Ireland. 



Judging from all that we know, this hybrid does not seem to have any- 

 thing to recommend it as an ornamental tree, and is much inferior in size and 

 beauty to the Lucombe oak. (H. J. E.) 





