Sequoia 



709 



He also measured some at 3 and 6 feet to show their rate of growth as com- 

 pared with other trees, as follows : 



Wellingtonia, i 

 2 



3 



4 



Common spruce, i 

 2 

 Larch 

 Austrian pine 



A tree planted in the pleasure ground at Cloverley by the late Mr. W. E. 

 Gladstone in 1872, now measures 56 by 8^ feet; another planted Jan. i, 1864, is 

 now 65 by 1 1 feet. 



In Scotland, the Wellingtonia has not attained as great a height as in England, 

 but seems to grow well in many places. The finest I have seen is at Murthly, 

 planted in 1857; this in 1891 measured 66| feet by 9 feet 3 inches, and when I 

 measured it in September 1906, had increased to 86 feet by 12 feet 5 inches. 

 There is one at Castle Menzies which Hunter says was planted out of a pot in 1858, 

 when it cost three guineas, and in 1883 measured 44 feet by 9 feet 3 inches. This 

 has not grown much taller, though it had attained the immense girth of 21 feet 

 when I last saw it in 1907. At Smeaton-Hepburn, East Lothian, a tree, planted in 

 1855, was measured in 1905 by Henry as 78 feet by 12 feet 9 inches. At Keir, 

 Perthshire, there are several trees, the tallest of which measured, in the same year, 

 71 feet by 9 feet. At Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, a tree planted in 1857 and 

 reported* to be 50 feet by 8 feet 4 inches in 1891, was, in 1904, 68 feet by 11 feet. 



The largest trees, reported^ by Renwick and M'Kay, are one at Buchanan 

 Castle, Stirlingshire, which was 71 feet high by 9 feet 3 inches in girth in 1900, 



' Joum. Roy. Hort, Soc. xiv. 501 (1892). ' Brit. Assoc. Glasgow, 1901, Fauna, Flora, and Geology, 144. 



