1076 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



1909, two measurements taken by Mr. H.' Clinton- Baker make it loi ft. by 9 ft. 

 7 in.' It girthed in 1865, 4 ft. 9 in., and in 1900, 9 ft. Sir H. Beevor has measured 

 another at Garston Manor, Watford, 90 ft. by 8 ft. 2 in. 



Another at Dropmore is believed to be one of Douglas's original seedlings, 

 planted in 1829, and, as measured by Mr. Page in 1909, was 99 ft. by 8 ft. 9 in. ; 

 in 1905 I made it 92 ft. by 8^ ft. At Arley Castle two trees of the same origin, 

 measured by Mr. R. Woodward in 1909, were 104 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in., and 96 ft. by 

 6 ft. 7 in. At Highnam there is a tree 72 ft. by 9 ft. 4 in. At Escot St. Mary, 

 Miss F. Woolward measured a tree 94 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in. At Brocklesby Park, 

 Mr. Havelock measured, in 1904, a tree 87 ft. by 6 ft. 10 in. On the heavy clay at 

 Orton Longueville the largest is only about 70 ft. by 7^ ft. 



In the damper climate of the west it does not seem to grow so fast, the best tree 

 at Killerton being only 72 ft. by 6J ft. At Eastnor Castle, there are two trees of 

 the typical form, 65 ft. by 7 ft., and 65 ft. by 8 ft. 4 in., and a specimen of var. 

 Jeffreyi, 58 ft. by 5 ft., all the measurements being taken by Mr. Mullins in 1909. 

 Var. Jeffreyi is 60 ft. by 5 ft. 3 in. at Westonbirt, and 56 ft. by 5 ft. i in. at Orton. 



In Wales I have not noticed any specially noteworthy trees, the climate at 

 Penrhyn being clearly too wet to suit its requirements. 



In Scotland the best we have seen is at Smeaton Hepburn. A tree^ of var. 

 Jeffreyi, planted in 1856, measured in 1902, 72 ft. high and 4 ft. 9. in. in girth. A 

 tree at Scone, Perthshire, measured^ in 1891, 50 ft. by 6 ft. 8. in. 



Though it grows fairly well in central and eastern Scotland, we have seen no 

 large trees in the west, and Sir H. Maxwell mentions none. 



In Ireland also it seems to be unsuccessful ; none of the reports of the Conifer 

 Conference in 1891 speak well of it, and we have seen no trees worth recording for 

 their size. 



In Germany cones matured' for the first time in 1894, on a tree at Schaffenberg, 

 near Berlin, which was 25 ft. high and growing with great vigour and apparently 

 hardy. Both P. ponderosa and var. Jeffreyi have been experimented with in forest 

 plots* in Prussia, and succeeded for a time, but afterwards for some inexplicable 

 reason gradually withered and died. The seedlings are very liable to the leaf- 

 shedding disease, Lophodermium Pinastri. 



As a timber tree it is not likely to have any importance in Europe, the timber 

 being coarse in comparison with that of the native species. In North America, 

 however, it is one of the most useful for mining and general building purposes. 



As a rule, according to Sargent,^ P. ponderosa and its varieties have not proved 

 satisfactory in the eastern states. The long-leaved Californian forms are not hardy 

 in New England. Var. scopulorum is hardy near Boston, where it is impossible, 

 however, to keep it alive more than a few years, as a fungoid disease disfigures and 

 soon destroys it. Var. Jeffreyi is more successful, and the best specimens probably 



1 Hist. Berwickshire Nat. Club, xviii. 211 (1904). ^ Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 536 (1892). 



3 Garden and Forest, vii. 95 (1894), where it is stated that at Berlin P. Sabiniana succumbed in the severe winter of 1893 ; 

 while P. Coulteri is hardy, but grows slowly. 



* Cf. Schwappach, Anbauversuche fremdldnd. Hokart. 57 (1901), and Unwin, Future Forest Trees, 57 (1903). 

 ^ Garden and Forest, x. 470 (1897). 



