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Proceedings . 



(abstract.) 

 This garden is situated at about five chains from the foot of St. John's 

 Bush, a wooded cliff some 90 feet in height, bounding the town of Wanganui 

 on the north-west. The garden is, from its situation, exposed to almost the 

 whole of the sun's warmth, and is also completely sheltered by the cliif from 

 the iDrevailing wind — the north-west. Besides this nattiral protection, the 

 north-western boundary of the garden is screened by a hawthorn hedge extend- 

 ing along its whole length, and averaging in height abotit 28 feet. Behind the 

 hedge is a running stream, the percolation from the Virginia Lake, by which 

 the whole of the garden can be irrigated. The spot on which the nursery is 

 laid out was formerly the old bed of the Wanganui Biver, and subsequently 

 an ancient forest. On the surface, therefore, is an average of from 3 to 4 feet, 

 in many places deepening to 6 feet, of decayed vegetable matter, while the 

 subsoil is a rich alluvial deposit. Its extent is five acres, of which about two 

 and a half are orchard, one devoted to nursery stock, and the remainder to 

 specimen trees and shrubs. 



The following table will give some idea of the luxuriant growth of the plants 

 in this garden, to place which on record is the object of this communication : — ■ 



Age (from 



Nursery 

 Stock.) 



Names. 



Hei 



ght. 



Spread 



of 



Branches. 



Trunk 



at 

 Base. 







ft. 



in. 



ft. in. 



ft. in. 



3 



Cupressus goviniana 



17 







14 



2 11 



3 



„ torulosa 



7 



8 



7 



1 4 



3 



„ lawsonii 



9 



1 



8 



2 



4 



„ benthamii 



19 



3 



20 



2 11-1 



3 



2 



„ pendula 

 „ knightii 



7 

 7 





 9 



6 

 6 



71 

 6^ 



3 



4 



„ sempervirens stricta ... 

 „ macrocarpa 



15 



24 





 10 



3 6 



22 6 



1 1 

 3 1 



3 



„ ditto (denser in habit) . . . 



18 



4 



20 6 



2 10 



3 



2 



„ corneyana 



„ schubertia (from seed) ... 



9 

 4 



2 

 6 



12 

 4 6 



1 



41 



3 

 3 



„ sempervirens ... 

 „ craigiana 



9 

 10 





 



8 

 10 



101 



1 o' 



6 

 3 



Oyster Bay Pine ... 

 Cryptomeria lobbii 



11 



15 





 



14 

 8 6 



1 9 

 1 6 



2 



„ elegans 



7 



6 



6 



9 



3 



Pinus insignis 



22 







10 6 



3 



4 



„ sylvestris 



11 



6 



10 



1 10 



3 



,, canariensis ... 



11 







4 



1 4 



3 



„ maritima (from seed) 



10 



6 



9 



1 U 



3 



„ austriaca 



8 



9 



7 .0 



1 4" 



3 



„ strobus 



5 



9 



6 



9 



3 



„ coulterii 



8 



6 



7 6 



1 5 



3 



„ longifolia 



4 



9 



4 



1 1 



