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capital letters, to render the title, we can only assume, 
more assured and enduring. 
There is so little opportunity offered to most of 
us to form our own impartial judgment upon the 
prowess of our olfactory capabilities, that it would 
be perhaps presumptuous to ventilate, even faintly, 
such an unpractised opinion upon so delicate a subject. 
But in the case of the T. Californica, from the not 
very exhaustive experience of only a few tries, I 
should feel inclined to vote in favour of mitigating 
the unsavoury impeachment. The charge of mal- 
odour preferred against the T. Grandis, in spite of 
the fact that the unfragrant adjectives have been 
applied all round to the Torreyan tribe, has been 
dismissed by some authorities. The Nucifera and 
Taxifolia may, for all I know, fully deserve the 
reputation. As neither the T. Grandis nor the T. 
Taxifolia, between which some confusion seems to 
exist, appear to be English grown—our winters 
have proved too much for them—we need hardly 
follow the question of their exhalations to a bitter end. 
As trees they are very rarely to be met with in our 
country, and the T. Californica is the only species of 
them that attains tree-form dimensions. A few only 
are mentioned in the Trees of Great Britain, and there 
is another unmentioned there that grows at Scorrier 
(John . Williams), Cornwall, a sizable tree, and one 
that it is believed was brought and planted there by 
W. Lobb in the fifties of the last century. 
On-the subject of size we should add that E. Wilson, 
in his 1914 expedition to Japan, came across a T. 
Nucifera at Kamo, in the Satsuma Province, 93 ft. 
high, 18 ft. in girth. 
On the question of identifying them, we have first 
to set to work on the task of discriminating between 
them and the Cephalotaxi. We will enumerate a 
‘few. of the differences, 
