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India. This duty he successfully performed, and thus 

 became the founder of the great tea growing industry 

 of India. In 1858 we find him in the employment of 

 the American Government in China and Japan. Among 

 conifers, he was instrumental in introducing Cryptomeria 

 Japonica, Laricopsis Kaempferi, Cephalotaxus Fortunei, 

 Pinus Bungeana, Thuya Japonica, Cupressus Funebris, 

 besides many other plants. 



The Oregon Society was a fruitful means of obtaining 

 and distributing seeds and plants, and though I do not 

 think my father belonged to it, yet some of the earliest 

 seeds or plants came into his possession. He was later 

 on a member of the British Columbia Botanical Society, 

 whose collector was Robert Brown. 



The winter of 1860 and 1861 damaged or killed many 

 species of coniferse, as the following entry shows: — "The 

 winter of 1860 and 1861 was the severest recorded here ; 

 the snow lay 37 inches all over, and, where drifted, 

 interrupted communication for more than a week. The 

 thermometer fell to 6 degrees below zero fahr." 



The following trees were injured: — Cup. Torulosa, four 

 to five feet of top killed, and many branches ; others killed ; 

 Cup. Macrocarpa, two more or less injured, one killed ; 

 Cup. Thurifera, nearly killed ; Araucaria, much injured 

 on terrace, ones at lake uninjured; Sequoia Sempervirens, 

 small branches killed; Pinus Insignis, several injured but 

 not killed; Pinus Coulteri, much injured; Pinus Macro- 

 carpa, leading shoots killed ; Pinus Acahuite, slightly 

 injured; Abies Webbiana, severely injured ; Cedrus Libani 

 and Atlantica, some tips injured; Cunninghamia Lanceolata, 

 injured. The following were uninjured : — Cedrus Deodara, 

 Thuya Pendula, Chinese Thuya, Arborvitae, Cryptomeria 

 Japonica, Pinus Excelsa, Lambertiana, Pallasiana Ponderosa, 

 Abies Cephalonica, Grandis, Nobilis, Pinsapo, Menziesii, 

 Picea, Pindrow. Smithiana, and Douglas. 



I have here a list of all the largest conifers growing 

 in the grounds at Smeaton that were planted before 1860. 



