696 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 
IRELAND 
Shane’s Castle, Antrim . ; Grows rapidly here. 
Fota, Cork . : ; Free-growing, fine tree. 
Woodstock, Kilkenny . ; A handsome tree. 
Birr Castle, King’s County. Thriving well. 
Adare Manor, Limerick . . : Thriving ; gales break leader. 
Baron’s Court, Tyrone . : Fine rapid grower. 
Coollattin, Wicklow ' ; Very fine specimen. 
REMARKABLE TREES 
Among the great number of large redwoods I have seen at various places in 
England, I think the finest is one at Claremont, growing near the borders of the 
lake in a very sheltered position (Plate 194), which in 1903 measured 95 feet by 
12 feet and in 1907 98 feet by 12 feet 9 inches. At Melbury there is a tree not so 
tall but thicker, which in 1906 was 85 feet by 15 feet 1 inch. At Fonthill Abbey 
there is a remarkable twin tree which grows in a damp hollow, dividing at the 
ground into two trunks which are 98 to 100 feet high by 10 feet and 9 feet 3 inches 
in girth respectively. At Boconnoc in Cornwall there is a tree which in 1851 was 
already 16 feet high, and in 1891 was reported as measuring 75 feet by 13 feet, but 
when I measured it in 1905 it had lost its top, and was then only 68 feet by 
144 feet. At Dropmore, Buckinghamshire, a tree,’ remarkable for its pendulous 
branches and branchlets, is 94 feet high and 11 feet in girth, Three years ago, 
according to Mr. Page, the gardener, it was 10 feet 6 inches in girth, so that it is 
still making rapid growth. This tree was planted in 1845, when it was a foot high, 
having been bought for five guineas at Knight and Perry’s nursery. It is bearing 
this year an immense number of cones; but no attempt has ever been made to 
raise seedlings. 
In a sheltered dell known as the Wilderness, at Cuffnells, near Lyndhurst, the 
seat of R. Hargreaves, Esq., are three splendid redwoods, which were planted 
about the year 1855 by his father. These measure 102 feet by 10 feet 8 inches, 
98 feet by 15 feet, and 105 feet by 10 feet 10 inches respectively, the last being 
equal or superior to the one at Claremont, and growing close to a magnificent tree 
of Pinus insignis, which will be figured in our next volume. 
At Beauport, Sussex, there is a tree with very pendulous branches bearing 
cones on the ends of the twigs, 73 feet by 9 feet 6 inches, and a larger one of the 
ordinary form, 85 feet by 11 feet 5 inches; and at Hemstead in Kent there is a tree 
not quite so tall as the Cryptomeria growing by its side (see Plate 42), and of about 
the same age. In the eastern counties the best we have seen are at Hardwicke 
House, Suffolk, where a tree in 1905 was 74 feet by 11 feet 10 inches, and at 
Barton, where in an exposed situation on the lawn there is one of 71 feet by 8 feet. 
This seems to be the only survivor of four which Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury ” 
1 Erroneously reported to have been 114 feet in height in 1903 in Journ. Board of Agriculture, x. 345 (1904). 
2 Arboretum Notes, 166 (1889). 
