Eucalyptus 1641 



Mr. Llewellyn Lloyd tells us that numerous seedlings of the Brightlingsea trees 

 have been planted in Essex, — as in his own garden at Kirby, and in that of Mr. 

 J. B. Hawkins at Wyvenhoe. A tree at the Rectory, Prating, planted twenty-eight 

 years ago in light sandy soil, is over 30 ft. high and about 2 ft. in girth. There are 

 also some trees about eighteen years old and 30 ft. high at Birch Hall, Colchester, 

 from which the Right Hon. James Round has lately raised seedlings. Messrs. 

 Abbott, nurserymen at Ardleigh, near Colchester, are said to have a stock for sale. 



At Menabilly, there was a tree of this species, from which the figure in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 7808, was drawn ^ in 1901. It is doubtful if this is the same as a tree which 

 was 38 ft. by i ft. 4 in. in January igii. 



At Borde Hill, Sussex, there is a tree in a sheltered corner close to the house, 

 which flowered in July 1909, and bore fruit in the previous year. It measured 56 ft. 

 by 3 ft. 9 in. ; and Mr. Stephenson Clarke says that it has endured 22° of frost with- 

 out injury. At Hemsted Park, Kent, a healthy tree was 33 ft. high in 191 1. In 

 Miss Breton's garden at Sandhurst, a tree eighteen years planted, was 48 ft. high by 

 2 ft. 5 in. in girth in 191 1 ; and a seedling from this is 20 ft. high. At Colesborne I 

 planted a tree which was raised by the late Sir Charles Strickland in 1903, under a 

 high wall facing north, and here it grew to 15 feet high in four years. In the severe 

 winter of 1908- 1909, when the thermometer went below zero, the top of this tree was 

 killed as far down as the sun struck it, but the remainder continued healthy, and 

 flowered in August 19 10. After its top was frozen it threw out many shoots at 

 ground level. The buds on this tree are formed about August and remain unopened 

 for about twelve months. 



At Putley Court, Ledbury, there is a handsome tree, planted about 1887, which 

 in 19 10 measured 48 ft. by 2\ ft., and produced flowers and fruit. 



Mr. J. P. Rogers sent us in 19 10 a branch from a tree at Penrose, near Helston 

 in Cornwall, which is about 45 ft. high, and 2 ft. 1 1 in. in girth at three feet from the 

 ground. This was raised from seed about sixteen years ago ; and about thirty 

 seedlings from the same batch were planted out in the woods ; but Mr. Rogers says 

 that only two survived, and only one of these grew properly. This species is not 

 rare in Cornwall, as it is growing also at Enys and Penjerrick. 



This species is apparently quite hardy in the eastern counties, even at a consider- 

 able distance inland, where severe frost is not unusual. A tree in the Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, obtained from Dicksons of Chester in 1 898, is very thriving and 

 about 25 ft. high. Another, growing in a sheltered position in an old quarry at Furze 

 Hill, North Walsham, which was planted, according to Mrs. Petre, in 1899, is now 

 about 40 ft. by 2 ft. 9 in., and is thriving, though occasionally a few twigs are cut by 

 severe frosts. 



Mr. A. R. Wallace has written^ an article on this species, which he cultivated in 

 his garden at Parkstone, Dorset, Planted in 1889, it was 30 ft. high by 3^ ft. at a 

 foot from the ground in 1902 ; but was cut down soon after. 



" According to notes on a specimen in the Kew Herbarium, the tree mentioned in the text of the Bot. Mag. t. 7808, never 

 existed. The tree, figured as E. Gunnii at Menabilly, in Card. Chron. xi. 787, fig. 113 (1897), and xxxiii. 234, fig. 97 

 (1903), was not this species, but apparently E. cocHfera. See p. 1637, note i. 



2 The Garden, Ixi. 57, and Ixii. 47 (1902). 



