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[Scale, 4 in. lo 1ft.] 



tree at Cashiobury; and several at White Knights, one of which, 16 ft. high, 

 has ripened seeds. At Farnham Castle, in Hampshire, one 10 years planted 

 is 16 ft. high ; and at Cobham Hall, in Kent, one 16 years planted is 20 ft. 

 high. The largest M. c. Soulangeflwa in the neighbourhood of London is in 

 Brown's Nursery at Slough, where it has attained the height of 15 ft. in less 

 than ten years, and is thought by Mr. Brown to be rather more hardy than 

 M. conspicua. At High Clere, on an elevated exposed situation, M. c. Sou- 

 langea/2a has attained the height of 7 ft. 6 in. in 4 years, as a standard. 

 M, consplcua grows freely, against a wall, in all the low districts of Scotland ; 

 and, as a standard, in the neighbourhood of Dublin. In the neighbourhood 

 of Paris, the largest plant of "M. conspicua is at Fromont. It measured, in 

 1835, 40 ft. high ; and the circumference of the trunk, at 2 ft. from the ground, 

 was more than 2 ft. ; and the diameter of the space covered by the branches 

 is 24 ft.; it flowers magnificently every year, at the end of March and be- 



