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entrance, is a fine Table Yew, 28 ft. across, and further, 

 over a yellow-berried Yew, is a Spanish Chestnut, 5 ft. 6 in. 

 in girth, and probably the largest in Oxford, for it does not 

 do well in our lime-sodden soils. Further on, and just as 

 one would emerge from the Park at the exit at the west end 

 of South Parks Road, is a well-grown specimen of Chamaecy- 

 paris nootkaensis, 2 ft. 3 in., otherwise known as Thujopsis 

 borealis, one of the most decorative of the British Columbian 

 Conifers, and one which has proved thoroughly hardy in this 

 country. In British Columbia it attains to a large size and 

 is not an unimportant timber tree. 



Retracing our steps from the gate, we skirt the back of 

 the Physiological Laboratory, and along this path are to be 

 seen specimens of Araucaria imbricata, 2 ft., the so-called 

 Monkey-puzzle Conifer of Chili, good specimens of Cedrus 

 atlantica, 4 ft. 3 in., and two Cedrus deodara, 2 ft. 6 in. (one 

 is C. deodara, var. robustd), the former being a native of 

 Mount Atlas in N. Africa, while the latter is an important 

 tree in the Himalayas. A Spanish Chestnut in the same 

 clump girths 4 ft. Alongside the path also there are speci- 

 mens of Pinus cembra, one of our native European trees, 

 met with, along with the Mountain Pine, in high altitudes in 

 Switzerland, the Tyrol, and the Ural Mountains, spreading 

 eastwards through Siberia. On the side of this plantation, 

 towards the lawn-tennis ground, is a specimen of the tree 

 called in N. America the "Tamarack," Larix microcarpa, 

 2 ft. 7 in., a Larch which is distributed all over Eastern 

 Canada and far south in the Eastern United States. It 

 is characterised by having very much smaller cones than 

 the European Larch, nor does the bole ever attain to such 

 large dimensions. Near the inner border of the shrubbery 

 is a young Cut-leaved Beech. The isolated clump to the west 

 of the Observatory is known as Daubeny's Clump, because 

 he planted the two Sycamores, now girthing 3 ft. 6 in., which 

 are growing in the middle of a group of Horse-chestnuts. 



