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In England, the Silver Fir, under advantageous cir- 

 cumstances, attains a magnificent size, many trees, already 

 recorded by Loudon and others, having reached a height 

 of from one hundred to one hundred and thirty feet, with 

 trunks of a diameter varying from three to upwards of 

 six feet, and containing from two to upwards of three 

 hundred feet of solid timber. In Scotland, also, it has 

 reached dimensions equally great. At Roseneath Castle, 

 Argyleshire, there are several magnificent Silver Firs. 

 Among them one upwards of one hundred and twenty- 

 five feet high, with a trunk whose diameter, at six feet 

 from the ground, is nearly seven feet ; another upwards 

 of one hundred and twenty feet high, and a third re- 

 markable for its form as well as size, a figure of which 

 was published by Mr. Strutt. There are also many trees 

 in other parts of Scotland of nearly equal dimensions, and 

 among those not already recorded, we may mention fifteen 

 trees growing on two sides of a small triangle at the Heuk 

 Dumfriesshire, and planted between seventy and eighty 

 years, two of which measure upwards of nine feet in 

 girth, and the remainder from six to seven and a half 

 feet ; another fine specimen in the same county, at Ram- 

 merscales, which measures thirteen feet one inch at fifteen 

 inches from the ground ; and at Arbigland are trees of 

 upwards of thirteen feet in girth, besides the stocks of 

 two which were blown down in the hurricane of January 

 1838, one of which shows a circumference of fourteen feet 

 nine inches, exclusive of the bark, and the other of thirteen 

 feet six inches. In Northumberland, at Hartburn, there 

 are two noble Firs of this species, planted about eighty- 

 seven years ago ; one of these is nearly one hundred and 

 forty feet high, the diameter of the trunk upwards of 

 four feet ; the other is about one hundred feet high. At 



