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tree, west from the garden, 72 ft. high, girt 9 ft. 1 in. : all girts 

 3 ft. up. At Murie, in the parish of Errol, Carse of Gowrie, 

 Mr, Kinment, gardener there, informs me that there are some 

 cedars of Lebanon, which were planted, about ten or eleven 

 years since, in a shrubbery, where the ground was kept dry and 

 clear of weeds, and the soil is a black rich loam on a retentive 

 subsoil. The average circumference of these trees, at 3 ft. from the 

 ground, is 18 in., height 16^ ft., and their branches cover a circle 

 of 14 ft. diameter. Evergreen oaks are 12 in. in circumference, 

 3 ft. up, 17 ft. high, and their branches cover a circle of 9 ft. in 

 diameter. From this a comparison may be instituted between 

 plants of the same kind and age, in the neighbourhood of London 

 and the Carse of Gowrie, and the result will show the effect of 

 climate at 51 1° and 5Q\° of north latitude. All the measurements 

 of girts or diameters, given in this communication, have been 

 taken at 1 ft. from the ground. — Annat Gardens, June 16. 1835. 



Art. IV. Scottish Arhoricultiiral Notices. Argyllshire. By Mr. 

 Alexander Anderson, Gardener at Baltimore House. 



Having received one of your Return Papers from my esteemed 

 friend Mr. Gorrie, with a request that I would furnish you with 

 an account of anything I was acquainted with, worthy of being 

 inserted in the Arboretum Britannicum, I with pleasure comply 

 with his request. 



At Lochnell House, the seat of General Campbell, whom I 

 served six years, there are a great number of large and beautiful 

 silver firs from 6 ft. to 12 ft. in girt, and, I should suppose, 

 speaking from memory, from 60 ft. to 90 ft. high. There are 

 also many fine larch and spruce firs, which, though inferior to 

 the silver firs in size, all possess a fine conical shape. Ever- 

 greens thrive here, also, remarkably well, and many of them 

 are of great size and beauty ; but the dimensions I cannot state. 

 The soil where many of the finest silver firs stand is a thin 

 hazel-coloured loam, upon a retentive clayey subsoil. Their age, 

 I believe, is about 70 or 80 years. There was a hydrangea in the 

 garden, when I was there, of a good size, from which, a few years 

 after my leaving the place, the gardener informed me he cut 

 from 600 to 700 flowers at one time, which were exhibited to 

 some English visitors in bundles of 100 each. There is also a 

 row of beeches, with an elm or two among them, the roots of 

 which are washed by the tide ; but they are of good size, and 

 quite healthy. Many of the deep winding glens on this estate 

 are admirably adapted for the cultivation of ti'ees ; and planting, 

 within the last 20 years, has been gaining ground generally. I 

 planted, in 1826, on a small property in Morven, on the Sound 



