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stated that it was 5 feet and i inch in circumference, but omitted to mention at what 

 height from the ground this measurement was taken. In 1801 the dimensions of 

 these trees, as well as of other kinds planted at the same period, were taken ; the 

 observations were repeated in 1820, and I am now enabled to add the present size 

 of those which had been before noticed, as well as some others of different kinds but 

 of the same age, which were not before attended to. The circumference of the 

 trunks \f taken in all cases at three feet above the ground, and it will be seen by 

 comparing the different measures how much the cedars have exceeded all the other 

 trees : 



I visited Hopetoun, the seat of the Marquess of Linlithgow, in April 1904, and 

 found that two of these cedars still survive in good condition, the larger being about 

 80 feet high and 23 feet 8 inches in girth, the other about 88 feet by 13 feet. 



There is a fine cedar at Biel, East Lothian, the seat of Mrs, N. Hamilton 

 Ogilvy, which is said to have been planted in 1707 by Lord Belhaven, to com- 

 memorate the Union of England and Scotland. According to Mr. S. Ross ^ it was, 

 in 1883, 75 feet high by 17J feet in girth; but I am informed by Mr. T. Muir 

 that it is now 85 feet high by 19 feet 9 inches at i^ feet from the ground, with a 

 spread of loi feet. 



At Moncreiffe House near Perth, the seat of Sir R. Moncreiffe, there is a 

 well-shaped tree, which Hunter^ mentioned as bearing many cones and measuring 

 66 feet by 11 feet. In 1907, when I saw it, it was about 80 feet by 14^ feet at 

 3 feet from the ground. At Dupplin Castle, the seat of the Earl of Kinnoull, there 

 are two cedars of which the best shaped measures 86 feet by 16 feet 10 inches, and 

 the other is 18 feet 8 inches in girth at 3 feet. At Murthly there are two good 

 trees, which, though probably not much over seventy years old, measure 74 feet by 

 9 feet 3 inches and 70 feet by 10 feet 6 inches respectively. 



The best I have heard of in the west of Scotland are one at Mount Stuart in 

 Bute, which Mr. Renwick tells me is 64 feet by 8 feet 3 inches, and another at 

 Erskine House, near Renfrew, which is 62 feet by 10 feet at i|- feet from the ground. 



In the N.E. of Scotland it also grows well; there are two very fine trees at 

 Beaufort Castle. According to the measurements given me by Mr. G. Brown the 

 largest of these is 7^ feet by 22 feet 8 inches at 3 feet from the ground, dividing 

 at five feet into four large stems, which measure from 9 to 1 1 feet in girth. The 

 other is the same height and 16 feet in girth. At Brahan Castle there are also 

 some fine cedars. 



> Wfods and Forests, Dec. 26, 1883, p. 59. . * Woods, Forests, and Estates of Perthshire, p. 135 (1883). 



