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districts ot Great Britain. This of itself renders the tree one of 

 great value, and eminently qualifies it for using as a nurse to 

 other less hardy kinds. I have just learnt from a friend that the 

 Pinaster is being largely planted at the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 certainly the samples of wood forwarded to me for comparison 

 with that produced in Britain left little to be desired. 



(11) Nordmann's Fir {Abies Nordmanniana). — In a few years, 

 when better known and more readily and cheaply procured, this 

 beautiful tree will, I have little doubt, be largely used in the 

 formation of woods and plantations in this country. It grows 

 rapidly when suitably placed, a number of specimens of which 

 I kept a record having produced nearly two cubic feet of wood 

 annually, while the upward growth was 2 feet 3 inches in 

 the same time. From the appearance of the wood of trees 

 grown in this country, which have been cut up under my own 

 supervision, the quality of that produced in its native country 

 would seem to be well sustained, it being firm, clean, and readily 

 worked. 



(12) The Redwood {Sequoia semjoervirens) is rarely recom- 

 mended as a tree suitable for extensive or profitable planting ^ 

 and yet my own experience of it in sheltered valleys is far from 

 unsatisfactory. From actual measurements taken by myself in 

 Lord Penrhyn's woods in North Wales, I have found that the 

 yield of timber by the Redwood nearly equals that of the 

 Douglas Fir. 



On the banks of the Ogwen River, growing in alluvial deposit^ 

 this tree has risen to the height of 84 feet in twenty-nine 

 years, the stems at the same time being bulky in proportion, and 

 clean and smooth as a Norway spar. The timber is very good, 

 and as the tree is one that is peculiarly suitable, from its rapid 

 rate of growth, for planting with the Douglas Fir, I have every 

 reason for believing that in suitable positions it will be a valu- 

 able forest tree in this country. Like the Douglas Fir, it will 

 not succeed in high-lying and exposed sites, sheltered valleys 

 and rich soil being more suitable to its particular wants. 



(13) Lambert's Cypress [Ctipressus Lamhertiana) is a 

 capital maritime tree, and its value in economic planting lies in 

 affording a great amount of shelter where few other trees can 

 succeed, and producing a clean and valuable timber. 



(14) The Mount Atlas or African Cedar {Cedrus atlantica) has 



