Picea 83 



than Big Meadows, and other localities are mentioned by Sargent, who says that 

 Professor Brewer, after whom the tree was named, had previously, in 1863, found 

 a tree which was probably the same species, on Black Butte to the north of 

 Strawberry Valley, at the western base of Mount Shasta, where, however, it cannot 

 now be rediscovered. 



Another locality for Brewer's spruce was found in 1898, by Mr. F. Anderson, 

 on an un-^amed but conspicuous peak at the headwaters of Elk Creek, about two or 

 three miles west of Marble Mountain and eighty miles west of Mount Shasta. The 

 elevation of the peak is about 8000 feet, and several hundred specimens were found 

 growing near the summit ; the trunks were 1 6 to 20 inches in diameter at 3 feet from 

 the ground, and there were plenty of cones on the tops of the trees which were 

 about 80 feet high,^ 



It grows on the Siskiyous in company with Pinus ponderosa, P. Lambertiana, 

 and P. monticola, but usually gregariously in groves by itself The soil and 

 climate are dry, but there seems to be no special reason why this tree has proved 

 in the eastern States of North America so difficult to cultivate ; and as some 

 of the conifers of the Pacific Coast which will not grow, or are not hardy in 

 the eastern States, as, for instance, Abies bracteata and Picea sitchensis, thrive 

 in England, and the trees with which it is associated in America are hardy 

 and produce good seed here, we need not despair of seeing this beautiful tree 

 established in the south of England. 



The late Mr. R. Douglas, of Waukegan, 111., visited Oregon in 1891 on purpose 

 to obtain the seeds, and collected a large quantity of cones, from which several 

 hundred thousand seedlings were grown. But those sown in America perished in 

 their first and second years from causes which are not known, and attempts to raise 

 the tree in the Arnold Arboretum have also failed. 



Some of the seed, however, was raised by the late Baron von St. Paul Illaire 

 at Fischbach in Silesia, which were alive in 1895 ;^ and small plants were reported 

 in 1903 to be growing in the Royal Pomological Institute at Proskau in Silesia.* 



The late Mr. Johnson, of Astoria, Oregon, transplanted a few small trees to his 

 nursery, some of which are, I believe, growing near Portland. Brandagee found a 

 few two-year-old seedlings among the old trees, and half a dozen of them reached 

 the Arnold Arboretum alive. 



One of these was sent from there to Kew in November 1897, and is growing 

 near the Pagoda, being about 2^ feet in height at the present time (March 1905). 

 It is the only living specimen known to us in Britain. 



The tree is said by Professor Sheldon to grow from 100 to 150 feet high, 

 but Sargent gives 120 feet as the extreme height, and Messrs. Jack and Rehder did 

 not see any higher than about iio feet by about 9 feet in circumference. Douglas 

 informed Baron von St. Paul that the largest tree measured by him was 121 feet 

 high, and 2 feet 1 1 inches in diameter at 7^ feet from the ground. As the 

 region in which it grows is so limited, and forest fires are very prevalent and 



' Erythea, vi. 12 (1898), and vii. 176 (1899). ' Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. 1895, P- 42- 



s Ibid. 1903, p. 77. 



