1 170 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



a plantation, 75 ft. in height and 12 ft. 7 in. in girth at 3 ft. up, dividing above into 

 three stems. At Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, a tree measured 68 ft. by 7 ft. 8 in. in 

 1909. At Fulmodestone, Norfolk, a tree planted in 186 1 measured in 1903, according 

 to Sir Hugh Beevor, 68 ft. by 6^ ft. At Orwell Park, on the coast of Suffolk, 

 C. macrocarpa grows well, and is quite hardy, several trees being about 70 ft. high. 

 In Northumberland, at Twizell, there is a good-sized tree of spreading habit. 



Of the flat-topped and spreading variety Lambertiana, the best I have seen in 

 England, is on the lawn at Cuffnells, near Lyndhurst, which in 1907 measured 75 ft. 

 by 10 ft. ; but this is not so typical as trees of much smaller size at Killerton, and at 

 Coldrenick in Cornwall, the latter measuring in 1908 about 55 ft. by,7 ft., whilst a 

 tree of the fastigiate type growing close to it was about 70 ft. by 8 ft. In Pinetum 

 Britannicum there is a coloured plate of a tree of this type, planted at Osborne in 

 August 1846 by the Prince Consort, which in 1865 was of very regular and perfect 

 shape, and 40 ft. high. Col. Kilkelly informs me that it now measures 78 ft., with 

 a girth of 16 ft. at 3 ft. from the ground. It is perhaps the finest tree of its 

 type in England. (Plate 298.) 



In Wales this tree is quite at home all round the coast, the largest I have seen 

 being a fine and spreading tree at Bodorgan, in Anglesea, which in 1906 was about 

 80 ft. by 1 1 ft. 4 in. At Stackpole Court there is a tree 72 ft. by 8^ ft. ; but I have 

 not noticed large trees anywhere in the interior of Wales, or in the English counties 

 on the borders of Wales, where most conifers grow so well. 



In Scotland it seems to thrive best in the south-west. The most remarkable 

 tree I have seen is in the park at Poltalloch, which has the habit of a spreading 

 Lebanon cedar, with small but very persistent cones. It measured in 1906 about 

 50 ft. by II ft, 9 in. Mr. Austin Mackenzie reports a considerable number of 

 specimens at Carradale, Argyllshire, mostly flat-topped and like a Lebanon cedar in 

 habit. The largest in 1906 was 50 ft. high and 9J ft. in girth. 



In Bute, on the Marquis of Bute's property, Mr. Kay reported in 1892 a 

 splendid vigorous tree 57 ft. by 5 ft. 8 in., but I did not see it when I visited this 

 place in 1906. 



At Castle Kennedy large numbers were planted, and Mr. Fowler's account of 

 this species in Lawson's Pinetum Britannicum, vol. ii. p. 197, is worth reading; 

 but though it grows vigorously and has ripened seeds for many years, the soil is 

 apparently too poor, or the exposure too great here to allow the tree to attain large 

 dimensions, as I saw none worth measuring in 1906. 



It is absent from all the Perthshire lists sent to the Conifer Conference, except 

 that from Keir, where a tree was reported as 47 ft. by 4 ft. in 1891 ; and I saw a 

 tree at Murthly which was nearly killed by the severe winter of 1895-96 when the 

 thermometer went below zero. Though it survived some severe winters at Durris 

 and Gordon Castle, we have seen no tree of any size in other parts of Scotland. 



In Ireland the Monterey cypress is at home in most parts, and there are 

 numerous natural seedlings at Derreen in Kerry. 



At Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, a tree measured in 1907 70 ft. by 9 ft. The finest 

 tree, however, appears to be growing in a garden between Wicklow and Rathnew, 



