1644 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



Mr. Garrett informed me that of the numerous other species of Eucalyptus 

 tried at VVhittingehame, all perished in the severe winter of 1894- 1.895, with the 

 exception of E. vernicosa, which was only damaged to a slight extent. None of the 

 seedlings of E. Whittingehamensis were in the least injured. Of these he raised 

 hundreds, which were distributed over the United Kingdom, the earliest dating from 

 1887, one of which at Whittingehame was 45 ft. high in 1903, while another raised 

 from seed in 1886 was 29 ft. high and \\\ in. in girth in 1904. The true E. Gunnii, 

 which he considered to be the species most like it, differed in producing seed freely, 

 when only four years old, at Whittingehame. There is a thriving seedling raised in 

 1888 from seed of the Whittingehame tree, in the rose garden near the pagoda at 

 Kew, which was planted in 1896, and is now about 40 ft. high. It has never suffered 

 in the least from frost ; and flowered for the first time in 191 1. Two seedlings which 

 were kindly sent me by Miss Balfour in 1905 were uninjured by the severe frost of 

 that autumn, though one of them has died since, and the survivor does not seem to 

 like the calcareous soil of Colesborne. 



At Blackmoor, Liss, Hants, there are two trees, which were received from 

 Whittingehame as one year seedlings in 1903. One is about 22 ft. high. The 

 other, which was pollarded a year ago, is about 15 ft. high, and was bearing flower- 

 buds in January 191 1. At Leonardslee, Sussex, there is a tree which was 40 ft. by 

 3 ft. in January 191 1, and was also bearing flower-buds. Sir E. G. Loder^ received 

 it from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 1889. At Terling Place, Essex, three 

 seedlings were planted in 1895- 1896, of which two were killed by a severe frost in 

 1909. The third was killed to within five feet of the ground, but is producing new 

 shoots. At Hatfield House, Herts, four seedlings were planted in 1890, the best of 

 which, growing in an open and exposed position, is now 40 ft. by i ft. 8 in., but has 

 not yet flowered. A smaller one sheltered from the north was bearing flower-buds 

 in January 191 1. At Sandhurst, a Whittingehame seedling in Miss Breton's 

 garden, planted thirteen years, was 35 ft. by i ft. 11 in. in 191 1. At Abbotsbury, 

 one four years old was 20 ft. high in 191 1. 



At Kinloch Hourn, Mr. Birkbeck planted the first seedlings of this in 1890 and 

 1 89 1, and these had their leaves slightly browned in the severe winter of 1 894-1 895, 

 when the temperature fell to 0° Fahr. ; but have thriven since. In Kilmarnock^ the 

 Whittingehame seedlings were uninjured in the same winter, when E. cocci/era was 

 killed. A seedling at Monreith, planted when 2 ft. high in 1908, is now about 13 ft. 

 high. Another at Inverewe, planted in 1896, was 45 ft. high by 2 ft. in girth in 191 1. 



(H. J. E.) 



' Sir E. G. Loder says that his tree is much hardier and not the same as E, umigera, several plants of which were killed 

 at Leonardslee, although 20 ft. high, by a severe winter. 

 ^ Dr. Landsborough in a letter to Mr. Birkbeck. 



