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At The Grove, Herts, there are two large rough and branching old trees, one 

 of which Henry in 1904 found to be 96 ft. by 12 ft. 2 in. Another at Cassiobury 

 Park measured 102 ft. by 8| ft. in the same year. 



In the Belvedere plantation, Windsor, there are a number of fine Weymouth 

 and Scots pines planted about 1760, according to Menzies, though Mr. Simmonds, 

 who showed them to me, thought that they may be older. The best of the former 

 measure about 100 ft. by 9 ft., are clean for half their length, and are litde if 

 anything less in size than the Scots pine presumably of the same age. 



At Hollycombe, Sussex, the seat of J, C. Hawkshaw, Esq., there are some of 

 the cleanest and best grown trees of their age in England growing among larch 

 near the entrance to the lodge. The best I measured was over 100 ft. high by 

 H ft. in girth, and contained 120 to 150 ft. of timber. Mr. Hawkshaw informs me 

 that these trees are about 100 years old. 



At Woburn Abbey this tree has been planted to some extent on sandy soil, 

 which suits Scots pine very well, but which is apparendy too dry for P. Strobus. 

 On the Green Drive there are some large old trees left, of which the best 

 measured in 1908 about 90 ft. by 7^ ft., but the majority have died or been felled; 

 and the self-sown seedlings which are numerous in the plantation are mostly suffer- 

 ing from the attacks of a species of Chermes.' 



At Arley Castle there is a tree 95 ft. by 1 1 ft, 4 in. in 1905, which is perhaps not 

 over 80 years old. At Ombersleigh Court, the seat of Lord Sandys, a tree, with 

 large branches forking low down, in 1906 was 90 ft. by \6\ ft. near the ground. 



At Nuneham Park, Oxford, a tree with a clean stem, was 95 ft. by 7 ft. 9 in. in 

 1908. At Burwood House, near Cobham, Surrey, Mr. R. Woodward in 1903 

 measured a tree 92 ft. by 8 ft. 3 in. A tree in a field near Coombe Bank, Sevenoaks, 

 was 80 ft. by 9 ft. 8 in. in 1904. 



At Black Park, near Slough, the property of Sir R. Harvey, Bart., in a dense 

 wood of Scots pine near the upper end of the lake, there is a very fine Weymouth 

 pine growing on moist sandy soil, which, when I measured it in 1908, was about no 

 ft. high by 9 ft. in girth ; the stem forking at 58 ft. from the ground contains about 200 

 ft. of timber. 



At Gwydyr Castle, N. Wales, the property of Earl Carrington, there are 

 several large clean trees growing in a wood, with stems clean to a considerable height, 

 which I saw in 1906 and found to be from 100 to no ft. high and 9 to 10 ft. in girth. 



The largest in Scotland of which I have certain knowledge is one of nine trees 

 on the banks of the Almond, at Logiealmond, the property of the Earl of Mansfield. 

 Mr. A. Kinnear has recently measured these, and informs me that the largest is 

 94 ft. high and 7 ft. 9 in. in girth, with a cubic content of 119 ft. over bark. 

 The remaining eight are from 60 to 80 ft. high, growing on a steep bank of light, 

 dry soil, facing west. 



1 Gillanders, Forest Entomology, 331, 336, fig. 307 (1908), says that Chermes corticalis, Kalt., is common in the south 

 of England, and is said to do great injury to the trees. The stems attacked resemble in appearance those of beech trees, 

 affected by Cryptococcus Fagi ; but the two insects have no connection whatever, although on one occasion the absurd proposal 

 was made to cut down Weymouth pines to prevent the extension of the beech disease on a certain property. This aphis is also 

 harmful to the Weymouth pine in Germany. 



