1 1 24 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



the trees being well sheltered from the south-west and drawn up by maritime pines which 

 grow around them. They have the umbrella-shaped head of the true Roman pine, 

 and are from 50 to 60 ft. high by 4 to 5 ft. in girth. They produce cones abundantly, 

 which are attractive to squirrels, which eat the seed before it falls. By their bark, 

 their cones, and their habit they are easily distinguished from the maritime pines. 



Another place where the stone pine may be seen of some size, though in a 

 climate evidently too moist to suit it, is at Killerton, where, on the top of the hill 

 above the house, there are several old trees about 50 ft. by 7 to 8 ft., but they 

 have an unsightly appearance owing to numerous half-dead branches. At the foot 

 of this hill, on Taverner's farm there is another tree of the same kind, which is 

 healthier. 



At Saltram,* Devonshire, there are several trees, the largest of which is 60 ft. 

 high and 8^ ft. in girth. The late Lord Morley sent me a photograph of this 

 tree, which, however, is by no means typical in habit. At Mount Edgcumbe, Ply- 

 mouth, there is another tree 54 ft. high, and 9^ ft. in girth at 3 ft. from the 

 ground, with a spread of foliage 46 ft. in diameter. This tree has not borne cones, 

 though two smaller trees at the same place produce fruit freely. 



At Heron Court, in Dorsetshire, the seat of the Earl of Malmesbury, there are 

 several stone pines, the largest of which is no less than 13 ft. in girth at 2^ ft., where 

 it divides into large branches, but does not exceed 40 to 45 ft. high. There are 

 two groups in the park of smaller size, all of which seemed to bear ripe seed in 1906. 



At Melbury, Dorsetshire, there is a well-shaped tree about 50 ft. by 7 ft., 

 showing bark rather like that of F. Pinaster, with broad flat plates, but duller 

 and not so shining, and marked at intervals of about a foot, with irregular transverse 

 rings, which seemed to show its annual growth. 



At Kew the old tree near the Director's office measured,^ in 1903, 31 ft. high 

 and 7 ft. 7 in. in girth, with a spread of foliage 46 ft. in diameter. 



A large tree^ in the Red Lodge Nursery, Southampton, was blown down in 

 1903. It measured 61 ft. in height, and 8 ft. 7 in. in girth at 3 ft. from the 

 ground, and was said to have been seventy-five years old. 



At Eastnor Castle there is a group of stone pines which are curiously distorted 

 by irregular concentric swellings round their trunks. They are only about 30 to 

 35 ft. high; but one, which forks very low, is no less than 8 ft. 10 in. in girth at 

 i^ ft. from the ground. 



Sir Hugh Beevor reports a good tree at Chorley Wood Cedars, 50 ft. high by 

 9 ft. II in. in girth. At Burwood House, Surrey, Mr. R. Woodward reports a 

 tree 50 ft. high and 8^ ft. in girth. 



At Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, there is a tree about 30 ft. by 6^ ft. bearing 

 cones which seem fertile, though here the climate seems too damp for this tree. 

 There are two trees near the Orangery at Margam, about 40 ft. by 7^ ft., from which 

 seedlings have been raised. At Penrhyn, North Wales, a tall slender tree was, in 

 1905, 53 ft. high by 4 ft. 10 in. in girth. 



1 Gatd. Chron. xxxiv. 413 (1903). 

 2 Cf. Kew Handlist of Conifers, xxiii. (1903). This tree is figured in Card Chron. iv. 602, fig. 85 (I 

 ^ Card. Chron. xxxiv. 285, figs. 121, 122 (1903). 



