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fruit in 1898 at Polgwin, 1 Cornwall, and at Huntly, 2 Bishops Teignton ; and in 1888 

 at Beaconhill House, Exmouth. 8 



In the Isle of Wight, according to the Rev. H. Ewbank, 4 the blue gum was 

 very early planted, and had attained a large size at Ryde and elsewhere ; but all these 

 trees were killed in the severe winter of 1881. The same applies, he says, to 

 Bournemouth, where the trees thrive for a time, but are ultimately killed by a 

 severe frost. At Ventnor, however, there were said 6 to be specimens 40 ft. high 

 in 1890, which produced flowers and fruit regularly. 



At Kew, seed was obtained 6 from Tasmania in 1888, which had been gathered 

 from a few trees 7 growing in a sheltered gully near Tullochgorum, the only spot in 

 Tasmania where this species occurs naturally in a cold climate. The seedlings which 

 were raised did not prove as hardy as those from the ordinary form of the species ; 

 and all died in 1889, though they were protected by canvas screens. 



At Tan-y-bwlch, North Wales, several trees 8 had attained 50 feet in height at 

 nine years from seed, and flowered freely, but were seriously injured in 1890-91. 

 Seedlings were reported to have been raised from their seed, when they were only 

 seven years old. 9 At Colwyn Bay, a tree was reported 10 to be 33 ft. high in 1894. 

 Another, at Cefnamwich, Nevin, North Wales, sown in the spring of 1894 by Mr. 

 Hugh G. Jones, was 59 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in. in December 1909. 



At Belvoir Castle, this species u was killed when 1 2 ft. high on 8th February 

 1900, when the thermometer fell to 10 Fahr. 



In Scotland, the tree only lives for a few years, even in the warmest places. 

 The Rev. Dr. Landsborough, in his account 12 of the Eucalypti in Arran, says that 

 the severe winter of 1 880-1 881 killed all the blue gums on the mainland of Scotland, 

 including those at Stonefield, Loch Fyne, and all in Arran, except a tree at Lamlash, 

 which, however, was blown down in 1892, when it was more than 40 ft. high. A 

 tree, 18 however, at Tighnabruaich, Kyles of Bute, which was cut to near the ground in 

 1894-95, when the temperature fell to 19 Fahr., made fresh growth, and was 54 ft. 

 by 3 ft. 9 in. in 1905. At Logan House, near Stranraer, a tree 14 planted against the 

 south wall of the house, in 1 884, had covered the whole wall in 1 899 ; and produced 

 flowers and fruit in 1894, from which numerous seedlings were raised. Two trees 

 planted here in the woods in 1897 were reported to be thriving, although 17 of frost 

 was registered in November 1898. At Castle Kennedy, I saw in 1906 a tree about 



1 Gard. Chron. xxiv. 322 (1898). 



2 Ibid, xxiii. 346 (1898). The large trees at Huntly, being too near the house, have been cut down. Mrs. Carpenter 

 tells us that they flowered three times. 3 Ibid. iv. 133 (1888). 



4 Ibid. xxv. 19 (1899). In Gard. Chron. xi. 212 (1892), E. globulus is said to have flowered abundantly in the 

 shrubberies at Bournemouth when only 12 to 15 ft. high. These were all destroyed, when six to ten years old, by the severe 

 winter of 1890-91. * Ibid. viii. 694 (1890). 



8 Cf. Kew Bull. 1889, p. 6l, and Gard. Chron. xii. 728(1892). 



' From a letter to Kew from the Botanic Garden, Hobart, which gives these particulars, it appears that the seed behaved 

 differently in Tasmania, as seedlings planted at Tullochgorum grew into large trees, when native to the district ; whilst those 

 raised from seed from the warmer part of the island all died. 



8 Gard. Chron. xi. 247 (1892). 9 Ibid. vii. 170 (1890). 10 Ibid. xvi. 74 (1894). 



11 W. H. Divers, Spring Flowers of Belvoir Castle, 83 (1909). 



14 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xvii. 23 (1889), and xx. 523 (1896). An account is given in ibid. xvi. 162 (1886) of a tree at 

 Colintraive on the Kyles of Bute, which was 47 ft. high in 1881, when it succumbed to the severe frost of that winter. 



15 Ibid, xxiii. 148 (1905). " Gard. Chron. xxv. 138 (1899). 



