1466 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



Hough states that it is an excellent, light, and durable wood, well suited for boat- 

 building and cabinetmaking, but too rare to be generally known or used. Jepson 

 adds that the wood is strongly odorous, with white sapwood and clear light yellow 

 heartwood, susceptible of a fine polish. 



This tree was discovered in 1851 by William Lobb, who sent specimens and 

 seeds in that year to Messrs. Veitch, which were described as T. Myristica in 1854 

 by J. D. Hooker, a short time after it had been published as T. californica by Dr. 

 Torrey, who had received specimens from Mr. Shelton. 



Though hardy in most parts of Great Britain, this species requires a heavy rain- 

 fall together with rich deep soil to grow to any size ; and owing to its being usually 

 planted in open situations, instead of in the densely wooded ravines which it likes, it 

 has a tendency to spread and form branches rather than make a trunk. 



By far the largest specimen that I know is at Tregothnan, which, when I first 

 saw it in 1905, was 35 ft. by 6 ft.; and in 191 1 had increased to 45 ft. high. Its 

 shape is spoilt by three large lower branches ; its trunk shows some large nipple- 

 like protuberances resembling those often seen on the deodar. 



Another tree at Orton Hall, Peterborough, has produced fruit regularly for the 

 last twenty years, from which numerous seedlings 1 have been raised. It measured 

 about 25 ft. by 4 ft. in 1905. At Poles, near Ware (Herts), a tree, which has never 

 flowered, measured 40 ft. by 4 ft. in 19 10. It was planted in 1858. 



At Tort worth, 2 there is a handsome specimen, 25 ft. by 4 ft. in 1904, with 

 branches spreading to a diameter of 36 ft. ; and at Westonbirt, there is a tree in a 

 shaded position, 29 ft. by 2 ft. 9 in. in 1907. At Chipping Campden, there is a tree 

 about 30 ft. high, which bore staminate flowers in profusion in May 191 1. 



In Scotland it succeeds as far north as Durris in Kincardineshire, where a 

 healthy specimen is about 20 feet high. 



In Ireland, the best example is at Verner's Bridge, near Lough Neagh, where a 

 tree measured 40 ft. by 4 ft. 7 in. in 1904. There are also specimens at Fota and 

 Castlemartyr ; the latter, forking near the ground, was 30 ft. high when I saw it in 

 1908. (H. J. E.) 



TORREYA TAXIFOLIA 



Torreya taxifolia, Arnott, in Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 130 (1838); W. J. Hooker, Icon. Plant, tt. 232, 233 

 (1840) ; Kent, Veitch's Man. Com/. 119 (1900) ; Pilger, in Engler, Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, Taxacece, 

 108 (1903). 



Taxus montana, Nuttall, in Journ. Acad. Sc. Phil. vii. 96 (1834) (not Willdenow). 



Caryoiaxus taxifolia, Henkel and Hochstetter, Syn. Nadelh. 367 (1865). 



Tumion taxifolium, Greene, in Pittonia, ii. 194 (1891); Sargent, Silva N. Amer. x. 57, t. 512 (1896), 

 and Trees N. Amer. 98 (1905). 



A tree, attaining in Florida 40 ft. in height and 6 ft. in girth, with fcetid leaves, 

 branches, and wood. Young branchlets green, with occasional minute hairs ; older 



1 These grow very slowly at Colesborne and are now at eleven years old under two feet high. 



* A section from another tree which died at Tortworth was sent by the Earl of Ducie to the Cambridge Forestry Museum. 



