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bore flowers in May 1907. At Tortworth, a large bush bore ripe fruit on 15th 

 October 191 1, the seed of which germinated this spring in my garden at Colesborne. 

 At Kew there is a young tree, 15 ft. high, near the Temperate House; and an 

 older shrub on the wall near the Forestry Museum. The latter flowers sparingly 

 in most years, but has never produced fruit. 



I saw a large bushy specimen about 20 ft. high at Drove House, Thornham, 

 Norfolk, which was bearing ripe fruit in November 19 10. Major the Hon. 

 G. Legh informed me that this tree might have been much taller, but that it had 

 been topped by a previous tenant several years before. Considering the exposed 

 situation close to the North Sea, it seems probable that if seedlings from the best 

 form of this species were planted in deep shady valleys in the south-west of England, 

 they might attain a considerable size. 



The wood is hard, strong, and close-grained, taking a fine polish. It contains 

 numerous small equal pores and many thin medullary rays. The sapwood is 

 whitish ; but the heartwood is of a rich yellow or brown colour, often with peculiar 

 black streaks. The wood is used for making furniture, panelling, staves, shoe-lasts, 

 etc., and is suitable for turnery. At North Bend and Myrtle Point, in south- 

 western Oregon, there are factories where this wood is made into furniture and 

 veneers. A figured board of this wood; which I obtained, under the name of myrtle, 

 from the Californian State Exhibit at St. Louis in 1904, is in the collection of 

 timbers at Cambridge University. (H. J. E.) 



