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Cheviots, is our largest specimen,—lI believe five feet high, or 
upwards; and, at Lilburne—a site subject to great intensity of 
frost, and close to a stream flowing direct from Hedgehope Hill, 
—are no less than fifteen fine Wellingtonias, about four feet in 
stature. Here, at Hedgeley, is a similar one, very robust and 
healthy. Of those at Chillingham, I have not positive informa- 
tion, but have reason to believe they are safe, though the spot 
where the Castle stands is one of the frostiest sites in the county. 
One plant of this species, on ground a little higher than the 
Castle, I lately myself saw in good health. 
The Wellingtonia, however, in this northern climate,—though 
of healthy and robust growth, and exhibiting a peculiar port, or 
characteristic bearing of its own, suggestive of strength and 
majesty,—will yet, in all likelihood, not exceed with us the stature 
of a large Arbor-vite, or of our Italian cypresses of Devon. 
We must not look for gigantic proportions, but we have pro- 
bably acquired a new conical tree of secondary stature (or, per- 
haps, only a tall and stately shrub), well adapted to adorn our 
Jawns and arboretums, and able to brave not only the utmost 
severity of our insular winters, but our tempestuous winds. 
The Wellingtonia, in Spain and Italy, as in its native California, 
may perhaps be found to vindicate its epithet of gigantea. 
I must express regret that these memoranda are not both more 
perfect and better arranged. 
HEDGELEY, October 25, 1861. 
We owe the following authentic notices from the Belsay 
Arboretum, to Sir Charles Monck’s kindness and accurate 
observations :—‘“ My oldest and largest Araucaria imbricata, was 
measured last April, and found to be twenty nine feet high. It did 
not suffer in a single leaf lost. I have six or seven more, and 
younger, in the same enclosure, and about eight or ten feet high. 
One is scorched at the ends of its branches; not more than will be 
recovered in a year or two. Deodar Cedars, twelve to fifteen feet 
high arenot damaged. Of Pines,—Picea insignis eight feet high 
was killed outright. Pzcea ovata, (a beautiful pine), above half 
killed, but has made a gallant effort to recover, which I en- 
