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At Coolhurst, near Horsham, Mr. C. Scrace Dickens showed me a very fine 

 and symmetrical tree 75I feet high by 5^ in girth, and only 8 yards in the spread of 

 its branches. 



At many places in the south-west of England trees of from 65 to 70 feet are 

 growing of which the following are the best we have measured ourselves : Linton 

 Park, Kent, 70 feet by 7 feet i inch in 1902 ; Dropmore, Bucks, 68 feet by 6 feet 10 

 inches in 1905 ; Killerton, Devonshire, 68 feet by 7 feet 10 inches in 1905 ; Bicton, 

 Devonshire, 70 feet by 8 feet 2 inches in 1902 ; Blackmoor, Hants, 60 feet by 6 feet. 



In Wales a tree at Hafodunos measured 65 feet 6 inches by 9 feet 7 inches 

 in 1904, with natural seedlings a few feet from its base on the stump of an old tree; 

 at Welfield, near Builth, the seat of E. D. Thomas, Esq., a tree 68 feet high and 

 6J feet in girth was flourishing on the Llandilo slate formation ; and at Penrhyn 

 Castle Mr. Richards showed me a well-shaped and healthy young tree about 50 feet 

 high, one of fifty which had been transplanted when about 18 feet high, only one of 

 which died after being moved. 



In Scotland Thuya plicata flourishes in the south and west, as well as in 

 England. At Inverary Castle a tree only 25 feet high in 1892 is now over 60. At 

 Poltalloch there are many, of which one in 1905 was 65 feet by 7 feet 2 inches. As 

 far north as Gordon Castle it grows well, and at most of the places from which 

 reports were sent to the Conifer conference in 1892 it is spoken of as healthy and 

 vigorous. At Murthly, Scone, and Castle Menzies, I have seen fine trees, but have 

 not measured any of remarkable size. 



At Monreith, Dumfriesshire, the seat of Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., who 

 has a high opinion of this tree, a large number have been raised from seed and 

 planted out, but are as yet too young to measure. 



At Benmore, near Dunoon in Argyllshire, the property of H. J. Younger, Esq., 

 where there are very interesting plantations of several kinds of exotic conifers 

 made in the winter of 1878-79, Thuya, when mixed with the common larch and 

 Douglas fir on a steep hillside at 250 to 500 feet above sea-level, is now being 

 suppressed by these species, which grow more vigorously. However, in one part of 

 the plantation, near Ardbeg, at only 50 feet above sea-level and in fairly good soil, 

 the Thuya was holding its own fairly well with the Douglas, and had attained, at 

 twenty-four years old, 50 feet in height with clean stems varying from 25 to 38 

 inches in girth at 5 feet from the ground. Near Kilmun, on the same property, 

 there is now, according to the forester, about i^ acres of Thuya, which has been 

 planted mixed with larch. The larch has been cut out, and the whole area is now 

 pure Thuya, with clean stems larger in size than in the other parts of the plantations 

 where it occurs mixed with Douglas fir.^ 



In Ireland the best trees we know of are at Castlewellan, co. Down, 65 feet in 

 1903; Hamwood, co. Meath, 71 feet by 6 feet 3 inches in 1904; Churchill, co. 

 Armagh, 68 feet by 5 feet 10 inches in 1904; Adare, co. Limerick, 71 feet by 7 feet 

 7 inches in 1903. 



' We are indebted to Mr. Angiis Cameron, factor for the property, and to Mr. J. M. Stewart, forester, for further 

 particulars of these plantations, for which we cannot now find space. 



