Pinus I o 1 3 



have seen being in the south and east, not attaining such large dimensions where the 

 winters are very mild. It seems comparatively indifferent to soil, growing best 

 on a good deep loam, and is one of the pines which may be planted on limestone 

 successfully. 



As a rule it seems to have a tendency to fork low down, and often develops 

 into large spreading bushy trees with several leaders, and the lower branches resting 

 on the ground. Its growth when young is rapid, but seems to fall off very much 

 after forty or fifty years. It is liable to be injured by wind, and requires a sheltered 

 situation, with full sun. I am not aware that it has anywhere been tried under 

 forest conditions, and it has no special qualities that will justify its being looked 

 on as other than an ornamental tree. It produces seed freely, which sheds early, 

 and in favourable situations reproduces itself naturally. 



Remarkable Trees 



The best specimen as regards height and symmetry that I have seen is at 

 Hewell Grange, near Bewdley, the seat of the Earl of Plymouth, which in 1909 

 measured 93 ft. by 8 ft. 4 in. There are two fine trees growing on low ground 

 near the lake at Eastnor Castle, with tall oaks and elms near them. Mr. 

 Mullins, the gardener, measured these in 1909, by sending a man up the stems to 

 near the top, and found them to be 90 ft. by 7 ft. 11 in., and 80 ft. by 8|- ft. 



A tree at the Hendre, Monmouthshire, is said by Sir H. MaxwelP to be 90 ft. 

 high. A well-shaped tree near the mansion at Claremont was 81 ft. by 8 ft. in 

 1907. A tree at Nuneham Park was 74 ft. by 8 ft. 7 in. in 1907. A large tree 

 forking close to the ground, where some of the branches have layered, about 60 ft. 

 by 8 ft., is growing at Goodwood. At Ampney Crucis, near Cirencester, on the 

 lawn of the house occupied by Mrs. Elwes, a tall slender tree was about 68 ft. 

 by 4 ft. in 1909. At Highnam, Gloucester, a tree measured in 1906, 63 ft. by 

 8 ft. 5 in. At Wilton House, near Salisbury, a tree was 'j'] ft. by 8 ft. 3 in. in 



1906. 



At Merton, Norfolk, there is a tall tree, dividing near the base into four stems 

 which reach a height of 86 ft. This was raised from seed in 186 1. At Munden, 

 Watford, a fine tree is 75 ft. high, girthing 9 ft. at two feet from the ground, and 

 dividing above into two stems. There is a very remarkable specimen at The 

 Frythe, Welwyn, which was planted in 1846. It is 60 ft. high and 7 ft. in girth, 

 with extremely wide spreading branches, many layering and sending up erect 

 stems. The total circumference of the branches was 246 ft. in 1906. Mr. H. 

 Clinton- Baker measured a tree at High Canons, Herts, 75 ft. by 7 ft. in 



1908. 



Another is that at Barton, near Bury St. Edmunds, which measured m 1904, 

 87 ft. by 9 ft. 5 in. It was raised^ from seed given to Lady Napier- by Wallich, 

 and was planted out in 1843- It bore the severe winter of 1860-1861 without 

 injury. There is a large tree at Casewick, Stamford, from which Lord Kesteven 



1 Green, Encyl. Agr. iii. 280 (1908). ' Bunbury, Arboretum Notes, 131 (1889). 



