754 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



At Fulmodestone, Norfolk, in a wood where the Earl of Leicester has planted 

 on a deep moist soil a large number of conifers, close enough to shelter each other, 

 a tree was measured by Henry in 1905 as 69 feet by 6 feet. It has since been 

 much damaged by snow, but has produced cones from which Capt. R. Coke has 

 raised a few seedlings, and now measures only about 60 feet high. 



At Enville Hall, Stourbridge, there is a tree, which now looks as if it were 

 suffering from drought. It measured, in 1904, 68 feet by 5 feet 4 inches. 



A large tree, said to have been about 75 feet high, died and was cut down at 

 Penrhyn in North Wales in 1902. The stump, which I saw, was about 7^ feet 

 round. At Hafodunos, in North Wales, Colonel Sandbach states that this species is 

 always nipped by the frost and forms new leaders when the old ones are killed, the 

 growth being quite checked. 



At Castle Kennedy there is a short avenue of trees of this species, averaging 

 about 40 feet high by 6 feet in girth ; but the tops had been cut off, as they had 

 become bare and unsightly from exposure to wind. Here A. Webbiana begins to 

 produce cones at an early age ; and there is a seedling 20 feet high, with many 

 smaller ones near it. 



At Poltalloch, Argyllshire, I measured a fine healthy tree 61 feet by 5 feet 

 3 inches which in 1906 bore no cones. 



At Keir, Perthshire, there are two trees, one with a broken top, the other 57 

 feet by 4 feet 10 inches, and more narrowly pyramidal than is usually the case. 

 Seedlings were raised from the seed of this tree about ten years ago ; but as a rule 

 it bears very small cones (only 3 inches in length) with unfertile seed. A tree at 

 Dunphail, Morayshire, has also produced small cones, which slightly resemble those 

 of Abies Mariesii} This tree was probably planted in 1856, and is now only 33 feet 

 in height ; but has a double leader. 3 



In Ireland, A. Webbiana thrives well, and there is a good number of fair-sized 

 trees. It is said, however, to be slightly touched by frost at Fota, in the south of 

 Ireland, where the temperature fell to 14 Fahr. during four nights in the winter 

 of 1 901-1902. A tree at Fota was in 1903, 47 feet high by 3 feet 7 inches in girth. 



At Churchhill, Armagh, the seat of Mr. Harry Verner, there was growing in 

 1904 a tree laden with cones, even on the lowermost branches ; it measured 53 feet 

 by 4 feet 10 inches. 



At Courtown, Co. Wexford, a tree was recorded at the Conifer Conference of 

 1891, as being 52 feet by 6 feet 3 inches. (H. J. E.) 



1 The Dunphail tree has been described and figured by Masters as Abies Mariesii, in Bot. Mag. t. 8098 ; but there is no 

 doubt that this is erroneous. Specimens which I have seen show ordinary foliage and branches of A. Webbiana ; and some of 

 the cones are as large as those usually produced by this species. (A. H.) 



* Thrives at Durris only in partial shade, when exposed it suffers much from late spring frosts, both top and branch shoots 

 become clubbed and unsightly. Cones at a comparatively early age about 25 years. Is of no economic value. 



(J. D. Crozikr.) 



