Pseudotsuga 829 



beneath. At Fulmodestone, Norfolk, Sir Hugh Beevor measured, in 1904, a tree 

 98 feet high by 8^ feet in girth. Henry saw a tree there in 1905, which was 82 feet 

 by 9 feet 4 inches. 



Many other trees which approach if they do not exceed 100 feet in height, may 

 be found in the southern and western counties. 



At Endsleigh, in Devonshire, which was visited by the English Arboricultural 

 Society^ in August 1906, there is a very fine plantation of Douglas fir in Gunoak 

 Wood, of which careful measurements were made by Mr. R. G. Forbes, forester to 

 the Duke of Bedford, in November 1906, from which it appears that the three 

 largest trees in this plantation measure as follows : — 



No. 16. 120 feet high by 11 inches quarter-girth = 100 cubic feet. 

 No. 23. 100 „ 13 „ =117 



No. 30. no „ 13 „ =129 



Mr, E. C. Rundle. agent for the property, writes to me as follows : " The forester 

 says that the trees must not be taken as a full crop, for there is space on the ^ acre 

 for forty trees instead of thirty-two. As to their age I believe they must be over 

 fifty years, probably fifty-five, though an old man remembers their being planted. 

 The quarter-girth was taken over bark at half the length of the tree, and an inch to 

 the foot would be sufficient allowance. They are growing in an exposed position, 

 but in the middle of a wood on high ground, and the soil is not at all good." The 

 total contents of the thirty-two trees is 2857 cubic feet, an average of rather over 

 89 feet per tree. If 357 feet is deducted from the total for bark and small tops, it 

 will leave a result of 10,000 feet per acre. 



At Woburn, in a plantation called "The Evergreens," on a very light sandy 

 soil, Mr. Mitchell, forester to the Duke of Bedford, showed me a plantation made in 

 1882, well sheltered by surrounding trees, and wrote me the following particulars : — 



"The number of trees planted was 160, of which 132 are now left. I thinned 

 them a few years ago, taking out only dead and suppressed trees. The area of land 

 is as nearly as possible 2 chains square, and includes a few old Scotch and spruce fir. 

 I measured the trees in three classes, as follows : — 



72 trees : 50 feet by 6 inches quarter-girth = 900 cubic feet. 



40 „ 55 » 6^ » .. 645 



20 ,, 50 „ 4 „ „ III 



1656 

 Deduct for bark at 8 per cent . 136 



Total contents of timber . 1520 ,, 



This works out at 3800 cubic feet per acre at twenty-six years after planting," say 

 thirty years from seed. I may add that though these trees were planted close enough 

 to kill all their lower branches, yet none of these had fallen, and a good many of the 

 stems showed the same want of straightness which is so often evident in this 



1 Quarterly Journal of Forestry, i. 64 (1907). 



