COMMON, OR NORWAY SPRUCE FIR. 



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young tree at Jardine Hall, Dumfriesshire, the seat of Sir 

 William Jardine, Bart., which was planted as a seedling 

 about fourteen years ago. It is now twenty-five feet high, 

 the diameter of the circle covered by the lower branches 

 fourteen feet. The girth of the stem at one foot from 

 the ground is two feet nine inches. In one year the 

 growth of the leading shoot measured as much as four 

 feet, and the general average of its yearly shoot has been 

 about two feet six inches. It is planted on a light and 

 somewhat gravelly loam, which also seems to suit the 

 Pinus cemhra and excelsa from the Himalayas. At Hedgely, 

 Northumberland, the seat of Ralph Carr, Esq., is another 

 fine specimen, about the same age as that at Jardine Hall. 

 This plant measured, in July last, twenty-eight feet in 

 height, the circumference of the bole, at six inches above 

 the ground, three feet, at eighteen inches, two feet one inch 

 and a half, and the diameter of the circle covered by the 

 branches twenty feet. This tree is planted in a moist clayey 

 loam, which seems of too rich a quality for the nature of 

 the tree, as the shoots of the two 

 last years are inclined to monstro- 

 sity, being somewhat crooked, and 

 fan-shaped or flattened. During 

 the last year, it produced, for the 

 first time, a large crop of its hand- 

 some cones, but, out of two or 

 three dozen which we received, not 

 a single perfect seed was extracted. 

 The bark of this tree, as well as 

 of that at Jardine Hall, is rough- 

 ened by numerous cysts, filled with 

 a clear and very fragrant turpen- 

 tine. At Whitfield, Northumberland, the seat of Wil- 



