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We borrow from the Arboretum Britannicum, an engraving one- 

 sixth of the size of nature, showing the young branch and leaves 

 (fig. 4), and also another (fig. 5), which is a portrait of a specimen 



growing at Kew Garden, 

 England, taken in 1838, 

 when it was only twelve 

 feet high. We also add, 

 from the London Horticul- 

 tural Magazine, the folio wing 

 memorandum respecting a 

 tree at Dropmore, taken last 

 summer (1846). 



"The following is the 

 height and dimensions of 

 the finest specimen we have 

 of this noble tree, and pro- 

 blably the largest in Europe : 

 height 22 feet 6 inches; di- 

 ameter of the spread of 

 branches near the ground, 

 10 feet 6 inches ; girth of 

 the stem near the ground, 

 2 feet 10 inches ; five feet 

 above the ground, 2 feet 

 Fig. 4-Branch of the Araucana, or Chili Pine, one- The tree has made a rapid 



growth this season, and pro- 

 mises to get a foot higher, or more, before autumn ; it is about 

 sixteen years old, and has never had the least protection ; it stands 

 in rather an exposed situation, on a raised mound, in which the tree 

 delights. The soil is loam, with a small portion of poor peat, and 

 the plant has never been watered, even in the hottest season we 

 have had. A wet subsoil is certain death to the araucaria in very 

 wet seasons. A plant here, from a cutting, made a leading shoot 

 in the year 1833, and is now 19 feet 6 inches in height, and has 

 every appearance of making a splendid plant." 



In Scotland, also, it stands without the slightest protection, and 

 we have before us, in the Revue Horticole, an account of a planta- 



