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Arboricultural Society, on learning that we should 

 be glad to know their increase of growth since that 

 date, has been so good as to have the same trees 

 measured again, the increase being shown by the 

 subjoined table on p. 118. 



Mr. Fothringham also furnishes the following 

 remarks : " The measurements were all carefully 

 taken by sending men or boys up the trees, not by 

 dendrometers, and are, I believe, correct. There 

 are something like eighty or a hundred different 

 varieties growing at Murthly, but some of them are 

 young and only experiments. Those measured and 

 noted • are the most striking ; they are nearly all 

 gowing in large numbers. The remarks appended 

 to the table are made by Mr. James Laurie, the 

 gardener, who knows Conifers well. The only addi- 

 tional notes I have made are the following : Abies 

 Menziesi will never, in my opinion, supplant the 

 Spruce. Abies orientalis is not as free-growing as the 

 Spruce, but quite as hardy. Araucaria imbricata. — 

 Many of these were damaged by severe frost. Cedrus 

 Deodara will not, in my opinion, live to great age in 

 our climate. Cupressus thyoides. — ^This particular tree 

 was so much broken by branches blown off its 

 neighbour that I cut it down. Pinus monticola has 

 been attacked by a parasitic growth that is likely to 

 destroy all the young growth and probably the trees. 

 Juniperus recurva was severely injured by the hard 

 frost. By the hard frost I mean the winter of 

 1894-5. In February 1895, the thermometer was 

 for several days below o Fahr., and on one night 



