Eucalyptus 1621 



about sixty years ago a plant trained on a wall at Kew, of which there is a specimen 

 in the herbarium, gathered in 1851. This tree was eventually killed by frost. This 

 species often flowers under glass at Kew, forming a pyramidal tree,^ about 15 ft. high, 

 and is much used in the young state for bedding out.^ 



At Menabilly there is a fine tree, which Mr. Bennett reported to be 50 ft. high 

 by 2| ft. at three feet from the ground in 1909. Colonel Trefusis tells us that at 

 Porthgwidden,* in the same county, it produces flowers and is 28 ft. high and 

 I ft. 2 in. in girth. A. B. Jackson saw a tree at Heligan 30 ft. high in 1909. It is 

 also growing at Redruth and at Pencarrow in Cornwall, and at Exeter, where it has 

 frequently flowered ; but is ultimately killed by 20° of frost.* At Abbotsbury this 

 species is very thriving, surviving the severest winters and freely producing seed 

 from which seedlings have been raised. 



At Myddelton House,* Waltham Cross, Herts, it produces flowers, and, though 

 killed every ten years or so, is so beautiful that it is well worth growing. There is a 

 specimen in the Arboretum Herbarium, Kew, sent some years ago from Vicar's Hill, 

 Lymington, by Mr. E. H. Pember ; but this does not appear to be now living, and 

 was probably killed by frost. 



On the west coast of Scotland this is one of the hardiest species. It has 

 thriven at Kinloch Hourn,^ where, planted in 1894, a tree which had twice lost its top 

 in a storm, was 34 ft, by i ft. 10 in. in 1905. At Cromla,^ in Arran, a tree planted 

 in 1894, was 26 ft. by 13 in. in 1905. Here the flower buds form in August, and 

 expand early in March of the following year, this tree being one of the first to flower 

 in spring. At Inverewe on the west coast of Ross-shire this species is very thriving, 

 and of all the species which flowered early in 19 10, this was the only one which was 

 in fruit in December of that year. The trees here were raised by Mr, Osgood H. 

 Mackenzie from seed ripened at Abbotsbury ; and one of them in 191 1 was 33 ft. 

 high by 18 in. in girth, at ten years old. 



In Ireland, Elwes saw a tree in flower at Castlewellan,^ about 20 ft. high in 

 1908. At St. Anne's, near Dublin, a specimen,' which was planted out in 1904, has 

 passed through one or two severe winters, and was 20 feet high in 1909. There are 

 trees at Rostrevor of the same size, which flower freely. (A. H.) 



1 Raised from seed received from Hobart in 1888. 



2 Gard. Chron. xxiv. 191 (1898) and xlvi. 422 (1909). 



3 Ibid. xlvi. 403 (1909) and xlvii. 168, Supply. Illust. (1910). 



* Ibid. xlvi. 422 (1909), fLniJoum. R. Hort. Soc. xxxi. p. xci. (1906). 



6 Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 520 (1896), and xxiii. 147 (1905). Mr. John Paterson, who sent a 

 branch, informed me that this tree was 30 feet by 23 in. in June 191 1. 



8 The late Earl Annesley sent a branch with flower buds to Dr. Masters in 1889. Cf. Gard. Chron. xxv. 58 (1889). 

 ^ Gard. Chron. xlvi. 403 (1909). 



