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8 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



has proved disastrous to many plantations in Germany. This attacks the young 

 branchlets, and is readily recognised by the appearance of a white resinous drop, by 

 the decay of a band of bark, and by a characteristic swelling in the part of the 

 branchlet beyond, which continues to grow for a time. Mayr says that after a 

 severe frost in April, when the temperature fell to io° Fahr., Lawson cypress at 

 Grafrath was attacked by P. funerea, which, however, killed only the weakly trees, 

 the stronger plants surviving. Mayr recommends close planting, about 3 ft. apart, 

 in mixture with light-loving deciduous trees ; and gives a picture of a plot where 

 oaks thirty-five years old had been underplanted successfully twenty years ago with 

 Lawson cypress. 



Remarkable Trees 



There are many specimens of this tree all over Great Britain from 50 to 60 ft. 

 high ; but it is difficult to select the finest. The tallest that I have measured in 

 England is one at Eggesford, which in 1908 was 70 ft, by 5f ft. At Killerton 

 two of very different habit stand together on the slope behind the house (fig. 309), 

 and measured in 1906 about 65 ft. by 6 ft. 



At Brickendon Grange, Herts, there is a beautiful avenue, 100 yds. long and 8 

 ft. wide, of this tree, planted 8 ft. apart in the line ; and an average specimen measured 

 in 1907, 52 ft. high and 2^ ft. in girth. At Ryston Hall, Downham, Norfolk, there 

 is another fine avenue. 



At Canford Manor, the seat of Lord Wimborne in Dorsetshire, I measured in 

 1906 a fine specimen, said to have been planted about forty years ago, which was 

 53 ft. by 6 ft. ; and at Belvoir Castle one of about the same age was 56J ft. by 4 ft. 

 10 in. in 1908. 



At Leaton Knolls near Shrewsbury, the seat of Major Lloyd, there is a very 

 handsome tree 59 ft. by 4 ft. 4 in. ; and at Willey Park, the seat of Lord Forester, 

 near Broseley, a slender tree is 59 ft. by 3 ft. 9 in. 



In south Wales the tree grows everywhere very vigorously, the tallest I have 

 seen being a slender tree crowded in the pinetum at Singleton Abbey, the seat of 

 Lord Swansea, which, in 1907, was about 75 ft. by 2,^ ft. At Penrhyn Castle and 

 elsewhere in north Wales there are many fine trees. 



In Scotland the tree is as common as in England, every place where conifers 

 have been planted having some fine examples, but at Murthly there are more and 

 bigger ones than I have seen elsewhere. In a flat below the castle, a lawn, measuring 

 50 yds. by 25 yds., has been surrounded with fine trees nearly 50 ft. high, very 

 uniform in habit, whose branches now touch each other and form a dense enclosure. 



At Dupplin Castle, near Perth, there are fine trees, one^ of which was 

 55 ft. high in 1 89 1, and is probably now the tallest in Scotland; and at Moncrieffe 

 House there are some nearly as large. At Shanbally, Dumfries. Henry measured 

 in 1904 a tree 60 ft. by 8 ft. 5 in. at 3 ft., dividing above into three stems; and at 

 Benmore, where the tree has been largely planted, it seems to enjoy the very 

 wet climate as much as Thuya plicata. 



« Malcom Dunn, Kx^Journ. Roy. Hart. Soc. xiv. 89 (1892), who reports a tree of similar height at Rossie Priory. 



