552. The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



a consignment from his son, who was attached as botanist to the Antarctic expedition 

 of the Brgdus and Terror. (A. H.) 



The largest and finest specimen which I have seen in cultivation is at Bicton 

 (Plate 155). It measured in 1906 about 50 feet in height and 6^ feet in girth; 

 but bore no fruit on two occasions when I saw it. At Pencarrow, Cornwall, a 

 tree,* reported by Mr, Bartlett to have been obtained from Messrs. Veitch in 

 1847, was 36 feet by 4 feet 3 inches in 1903. One at Coldrinick in the same 

 county was measured in 1905 by Mr. Bartlett, who gives its dimensions as 45 feet 

 by 5 feet 5 inches. There is another specimen,^ about sixty years old, growing 

 on Sir John Llewellyn's property at Caswell Bay, near Swansea, which he tells me 

 measured 25 feet by 3 feet 2 inches in 1907. It is close to the sea and in con- 

 sequence has been shorn off by the sea wind to the same height as the Portugal 

 laurels and poplars which gr.ow beside it. 



At Grayswood, Haslemere, at 600 feet elevation, a tree, said by Mr. B. C. 

 Chambers to have been planted in 1882, measured 34 feet by 2 feet 3 inches in 1906. 

 At Hafodunos, Denbighshire, a tree, reported by Col. Sandbach to have been planted 

 in 1855, was in 1904 36 feet high by 5 feet 2 inches in girth at 3 feet from the 

 ground, dividing at 5 feet up into two stems. There is no tree growing now at 

 Kew, one, a healthy specimen, having been killed^ by frost in January 1867. 

 There is also a tree growing at Ashridge Park, Herts, which is about 30 feet 

 by 3 feet, on which Miss Woolward has observed fruit, and a smaller one is in the 

 Knap Hill Nursery, near Woking. A tree at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, was, in 

 1906, 33 feet high by 2 feet 10 inches in girth. 



I have a sample board from a tree of this species, which grew on the rockery at 

 Lucombe and Pince's Nursery, Exeter. This was cut down when the nursery was 

 cleared for building in March 1903. In 1886, it was 35 feet high and 2 feet 8 

 inches in girth at 3 feet from the ground,* and had not grown much in the succeeding 

 years. The timber was of poor quality, and had begun to decay. 



(H. J. E.) 



NOTHOFAGUS OBLIQUA 



Nothofagus obliqua, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 307 (1850); Reiche, Chil. Buck. 8 (1897); 



Wildeman, Voy. Belgica, 75 (1905). 

 J^agus obliqua, Mirbel, Mim. Mus. Paris, xiv. 465, t. 23 (1827); Hooker, ybwrw. Bot. ii. 153 



(1840). 

 Fagus glauca, Philippi, Linnaa, xxix. 43 (1857). 

 Lophozonia heterocarpa, Turczaninow, Bull. Soc. Imp, Nat. Mosc. xxxi. 396 (1858). 



A deciduous tree, attaining in Chile a height of over 100 feet. Bark, according 

 to Reiche, dark in colour and fissured. Young branchlets glabrous ; buds small, 



' Figured in Card. Chron. xxxiii. lo, f. 5 (1903), where it is erroneously stated to have been introduced from New 

 Zealand. 



' Figured in Card. Chron. 1872, p. 466, f. 136, and 1886, xxv. 104, f. 18. 



' J. Smith, Records of Kew Gardens, 277 (1880). < Card. Chron. xxv. 104 (1886). 



