250 Rapid Growth of young Trees, 



ing as standards in the open air, the following may possibly be 

 deemed worthy of insertion : — 



In the spring of 1833, a small plant of the Acacia dealbata 

 was o-iven to me, which had been raised in a pot from seed sent 

 from^Van Diemen's Land, and I placed it in a newly made 

 border of peat earth. It grew to about 8 ft. in height the 

 first summer, and showed blossom in the autumn, which, how- 

 ever, did not expand. At the time I now write, the plant is 

 covered with golden blossoms at almost every joint. It measures 

 between 16 ft. and 17 ft. in height, and the trunk is 11 in. in 

 circumference. We have experienced many sharp frosts this 

 winter, but even the extremities of the shoots do not appear 

 to be affected by them. The border is screened by a planta- 

 tion from the north and east winds, but we have had recourse 

 to no kind of protection whatever. The bark of the trunk 

 is still green, and has the appearance of a whitish bloom, simi- 

 lar to that upon some kinds of fruit. I intend to plant out the 

 A. lophantha this spring, in order to try how it will stand the 

 winter under similar circumstances of situation, &c. &c. 



Hatch Beauchamp Parso7iagei March 11. 1835. 



Art. X. Notice of the rapid Grouth of sotne young Trees, at Kned- 

 lington, near Houoden. Coramunicated by Thomas Clark, Esq. 



I SEND with this a list of trees now growing in my plantations 

 at Knedlington, and none of them as single trees. The Ameri- 

 can ones were raised from seed by Mr. Cobbett, and bought by 

 me from him ; they are most of the age of eight or ten years, 

 from the seed. Many more specimens of all the kinds, except 

 the hickory, might have been selected of about the same size. 

 The other trees, with the exception of the Platanus, were raised 

 from seed here, but have been transplanted from the seed bed 

 to where they now stand. Those selected for measuring were 

 not particularly fine ones. 



Liriodendron Tulipifera, ten years from the seed : height, from 

 14< ft. to \Q\ ft.; diameter of the trunk, 1 ft. from the ground, 

 from 2^ in. to 4 in. ; diameter of the space covered by the 

 branches, 5 ft. 



Robinm Pseiid-^cacia, ten years from the seed : height from 

 26 ft. to 28 ft. ; diameter of the trunk, 1 ft. from the ground, 

 from 6 in. to 8 in.; diameter of the space covered by the 

 branches, 14 ft. 



Robinza Pseud-^cacia, eight years from the seed : height, 

 23 ft. ; diameter of the trunk, 1 ft. from the ground, 4 in. to 

 5 in. ; diameter of the space covered by the branches, 10 ft. 



