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monarch Douglas Fir, planted in 1830, has attained 

 a height of 120 feet, girth of trunk n feet 9 inches, 

 with beautiful spreading branches sweeping the 

 ground, covering a diameter of 64 feet. The leaves 

 are also of a glaucous hue, equalling in that respect 

 many of the plants now sold from nurseries under 

 the name of Douglasi glauca. . . . Many trees have 

 since been raised from its seeds and planted out on 

 the estate; one, planted in 1843, is now 78 feet 

 high, with a girth of trunk of 8 feet 2 inches, 

 spreading 39 feet in diameter at base ; a perfect 

 specimen." 



By comparing the growth of the latter tree with 

 the Murthly table, it will be seen that the trees 

 make their growth much more rapidly in Scotland. 

 The Murthly Conifers were all planted by Sir William 

 and Sir Douglas Stewart. The present owner, Mr. 

 Steuart Fothringham, who measured the trees in 

 1891 in anticipation of the visit of the Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society, on learning that we should 

 be glad to know their increase of growth since that 

 date, has been so good as to have the same trees 

 measured again, the increase being shown by the 

 subjoined table on p. 128. 



Mr. Fothringham also furnishes the following 

 remarks : " The measurements were all carefully 

 taken by sending men or boys up the trees, not by 

 dendrometers, and are, I believe, correct. There 

 are something like eighty or a hundred different 

 varieties growing at Murthly, but some of them are 

 young and only experiments. Those measured and 



