696 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



Ireland 



Shane's Castle, Antrim . 

 Fota, Cork 



Woodstock, Kilkenny 

 Birr Castle, King's County 

 Adare Manor, Limerick . 

 Baron's Court, Tyrone . 

 Coollattin, Wicklow 



Grows rapidly here. 



Free-growing, fine tree. 



A handsome tree. 



Thriving well. 



Thriving ; gales break leader. 



Fine rapid grower. 



Very fine specimen. 



Remarkable Trees 



Among the great number of large redwoods I have seen at various places in 

 England, I think the finest "is one at Claremont, growing near the borders of the 

 lake in a very sheltered position (Plate 194), which in 1903 measured 95 feet by 

 12 feet and in 1907 98 feet by 12 feet 9 inches. At Melbury there is a tree not so 

 tall but thicker, which in 1906 was 85 feet by 15 feet i inch. At Fonthill Abbey 

 there is a remarkable twin tree which grows in a damp hollow, dividing at the 

 ground into two trunks which are 98 to 100 feet high by 10 feet and 9 feet 3 inches 

 in girth respectively. At Boconnoc in Cornwall there is a tree which in 1851 was 

 already 16 feet high, and in 1891 was reported as measuring 75 feet by 13 feet, but 

 when I measured it in 1905 it had lost its top, and was then only 68 feet by 

 14^ feet. At Dropmore, Buckinghamshire, a tree,^ remarkable for its pendulous 

 branches and branchlets, is 94 feet high and 1 1 feet in girth. Three years ago, 

 according to Mr. Page, the gardener, it was 10 feet 6 inches in girth, so that it is 

 still making rapid growth. This tree was planted in 1845, when it was a foot high, 

 having been bought for five guineas at Knight and Perry's nursery. It is bearing 

 this year an immense number of cones ; but no attempt has ever been made to 

 raise seedlings. 



In a sheltered dell known as the Wilderness, at Cuffnells, near Lyndhurst, the 

 seat of R. Hargreaves, Esq., are three splendid redwoods, which were planted 

 about the year 1855 by his father. These measure 102 feet by 10 feet 8 inches, 

 98 feet by 15 feet, and 105 feet by 10 feet 10 inches respectively, the last being 

 equal or superior to the one at Claremont, and growing close to a magnificent tree 

 of Pinus insignis, which will be figured in our next volume. 



At Beauport, Sussex, there is a tree with very pendulous branches bearing 

 cones on the ends of the twigs, jt, feet by 9 feet 6 inches, and a larger one of the 

 ordinary form, 85 feet by 1 1 feet 5 inches ; and at Hemstead in Kent there is a tree 

 not quite so tall as the Cryptomeria growing by its side (see Plate 42), and of about 

 the same age. In the eastern counties the best we have seen are at Hardwicke 

 House, Suffolk, where a tree in 1905 was 74 feet by 11 feet 10 inches, and at 

 Barton, where in an exposed situation on the lawn there is one of 71 feet by 8 feet. 

 This seems to be the only survivor of four which Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury^ 



' Erroneously reported to have been 114 feet in height in 1903 mjourn. Board oj Agriculture, x. 345 (1904). 



2 Arboretum Notes, 166 (1889). 



