Trachy carpus ^^93 



In Surrey, this palm can be grown very successfully in light dry sandy soil, 

 provided the plants are placed in a sheltered position. In these conditions, they 

 grow slowly, attaining about lo ft. high in thirty years ; but they flower regularly, 

 and are very ornamental.^ There is a fine specimen, 25 ft. high and 4 ft. in girth, 

 at Joldwynds, near Dorking, the seat of Sir P. Bowman, Bart. 



At Wisbech, Lord Peckover has a very old specimen, probably one of the 

 original seedlings, which was 25 ft. high in 191 2. A younger tree, planted about 

 thirty-five years ago, is nearly 20 ft. high, and flowers more profusely than the 

 older tree. 



In Scotland^ there is a good specimen at Ardchapel, Shandon, on Gare Loch 

 in Dumbartonshire, which was planted in 1866 by the late Prof Swan of St. Andrews. 

 In 1905, it was 1 1 ft. high, with a girth of 3 ft. 8 in. at five feet from the ground. It 

 has produced flowers regularly since 1881. There are small but thriving specimens 

 in Arran, at Craigard, Lamlash ; Whitefarland ; and Cromla, Corrie. 



In Ireland, it is slow in growth and of no great height in the open at Glasnevin. 

 Two trees at Narrow Water, Co. Down, were 12 ft. high in 1903. It grows well at 

 Mount Usher in Wicklow, where it ripens fruit ; and is represented at Fota by 

 several fine specimens, one of which is 25 ft. high. 



The Chusan palm was introduced ° into France by seed sent from central 

 China by M. de Montigny in 1851 ; and was first planted in Algeria in 1853. It 

 exists in the climate of Paris, where it bore 16° Cent, below zero in 1870-1871 ; and 

 it is hardier * than Chamcerops humilis at Montpellier, where the temperature occa- 

 sionally falls to the same point. There are fine specimens* in Brittany, notably 

 one in the park of Porzantrez near Morlaix, which was planted in 1856, and had 

 attained 27 ft. high in 1907. In Spain and Portugal there are fine specimens,^ one 

 at Lisbon being 40 ft. high. (H. J. E.) 



1 Cf. The Garden, isth November 1902, p. 341. 



2 Cf. Rev. Dr. Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 510 (1896), and xxiii. 140, 141 (1908). 



3 Gay, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, viii. 422 (i86i). 



* Planchon, in Flore des Serres, t. 2368 (1877). There is a small plant of Chamarops humilis in the bamboo garden at 

 Kew; but it would not survive without protection in winter. Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xxiii. 141 (1908), 

 mentions a thriving plant of this species at Cromla in Arran. 



5 Pard^, in Bull. Soc. Dend. France, 1908, p. 20. 



8 Ibid. 1 9 10, p. 106. 



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