48 TREES 



dozen still survive. Many of the others were killed during, 

 the severe winter 1860-1, when, after a long period of wet, 

 the thermometer sank on the eve of Christmas Day to zero 

 of Fahrenheit.* 



The only trees remaining of the original collection include 

 a Puzzle Monkey or Chili Pine, Araucaria imbricata, girth 

 2 ft. 7 in., which has not fruited the seeds of this species 

 are eaten for dessert in Chili ; a finely-grown Yellow Cypress, 

 Thujopsis borealis ; the Bhotan Pine, Pinus excelsa^ Himalaya, 

 trunk girth 6 ft. 2 in.; and a Corsican Pine, Pinus Laricio, 

 girth 7 ft. 6 in., which lost its leader when young. 



The Stone Pine died in 1860, as did the Deodars, but 

 the Atlantic Cedar, planted 1854, and 8 ft. 7 in. in girth, has 

 survived. 



The Wellingtonia and Cedrus libani near the entrance have 

 already been mentioned. The deficiencies in the collection 

 of Conifers have recently been filled in part by planting a 

 number of young Cypresses, Thujas, Firs, and Pines (see p. 36) 

 by the side of the Dog and Boar Walks within the Garden 

 walls, but there land is far too valuable for the culture of 

 any but the most compact forms, and the Garden Curators 

 would do well to order the more rigorous observance of the 

 suggestion quoted above. 



On leaving the Garden by the wide gap in the walls at 

 the north-east corner, the visitor will notice two species of 

 Ceanothus trained against the outer face of the wall next 

 Leland's variety of the well-known evergreen, Crataegus 

 pyracantha. 



The fine clump of Pampas Grass, Gynerium, is interesting 

 as the type of the vegetation which overspreads the vast 

 plains of S. America. The leaves are hard, wiry, and edged by 

 sharp points or teeth, little less hard than the teeth of a file. 



* Dr. Daubeny printed a list of Conifers killed in 1860, as a postscript 

 to the Supplement of his Garden GUIDE, p. 49. 



