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by Henry, was 42 feet by 4 feet 10 inches in 1905. At Brahan Castle, Ross-shire, 

 Col. Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth informed us in 1904 that he had a tree 4 feet 10 

 inches in girth, height not stated. 



In Ireland, Libocedrus decurrens is rare in cultivation. At Stradbally Hall, 

 Queen's County, a fine tree measures 53 feet high by 5I feet in girth. There is a 

 tree at Fota 45 feet high, dividing into two stems at 2 feet from the ground. 

 At Chmfphill, Armagh, a fine healthy specimen, growing in sand, was 45 feet 

 by 4 feet 10 inches in 1905. At Adare a tree measured, in 1903, 47 feet high by 

 7 feet 9 inches in girth. 



In North Italy this tree grows larger than in England and ripens seed freely, 

 which it rarely does here. At Pallanza, in Rovelli's nursery, I measured a splendid 

 tree over 90 feet high by 9 feet 3 inches in girth. Another on the Isola Madre 

 was 90 feet by 9 feet 10 inches, from which I gathered seed in October 1906, which 

 have produced a good crop of seedlings. 



It also ripens seed and grows well in the climate of Paris, and also at Les 

 Barres, and has produced self-sown seedlings at Thiollets (Allier).^ The largest I 

 have seen in France is at Verrieres, near Paris, a handsome and well-shaped tree, . 

 which measured, in 1905, 50 feet by 5 feet 5 inches, and is figured on plate vii. of 

 Hortus Vilmormianus (1906). (H. J. E.) 



' Pard^, Arb. Nat. des Barres, 32 (igo6). 



