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the branches were rather sparse, and this fault has become more 
prominent since. The rate, 1°51 in the first decade, fell to 1:10 
in the second, and as in the last two years it was only ‘50 the 
tree would seem to have passed its prime when only 4% ft. in 
girth. 
CEDRUS DEODARA. 
Avy. 
No. Rate, 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. JTotal. At. 
Py 102 F116 | S30)" Te 80 "as a eae 80. Ib Pb C0 60 Teco 
2} 1:06 [1-25 | 120 |110 | -85 | 80}110| “80 | -70 | 70 | -20 $870 | ‘87 | 35°25 
No. 30 was a fine tree, nearly five and a half feet in girth in 
1878, but soon got thin at the top and assumed, gradually, a 
rather stunted look. Its rate in the first decade was ‘60. In the 
second it fell to ‘48, with further degeneracy in the aspect of the 
tree. It has now the respectable girth of a trifle upwards of six 
feet. The much younger No. 29 has shown the same faults, and 
its rate has fallen from ‘88 to °74, the girth in 1897 being only 
three and a half feet. Both of these grew free, but Nos. 1, 2, have 
always been in the middle of a rather dense grove of their species. 
They are both still shapely, but their rates have fallen off from 
102 and 1°06 in the first decade to o’60 and 0°87 in the second. 
LARIX EUROPA, 
Two young larches were selected in 1887 and looked well for 
some years ; but one, after growing at the rate of 1°31 for seven 
years, became diseased and died in 1895. The other, in apparent 
health for three years with a rate of 1°03, rapidly degenerated, 
its rate falling to -30 in the last seven years, and was cut down 
in 1898. 
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