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breeze from off the Atlantic. The details collected from that 

 wide area will be found in tabulated form at page 481. 



In treating of such Conifers as give promise of forming 

 useful forest trees, the timber of which may be applied to 

 constructive purposes with fairly good results, we will take them 

 in alphabetical order, as being the most convenient method for 

 our purpose. The trees selected have attained to timber dimen- 

 sions in some parts of the United Kingdom, and on certain soils 

 and situations they are found to thrive well, and grow with 

 vigour and rapidity, of which note will be made in proceeding. 

 The girth given of the stem is always at 5 ft. from the base of 

 the tree, unless a different height is expressly stated. 



Abies Albertiana (Prince Albert's Fir) — or, as it is now 

 called by botanists, Tsiiga Mertensiana — is one of the finest 

 and hardiest of Jeffrey's introductions from the North-west of 

 America, which he sent home to the Oregon Association in 

 1851. It is already tolerably common in Scotland, although 

 seldom met with except in ornamental grounds in the other 

 divisions of the United Kingdom. It is seen thriving and 

 growing with marked rapidity in many northern districts, as 

 well as at rather high altitudes, wherever it has been planted 

 with ordinary circumspection, and it is likely to prove one 

 of the most useful, as it is one of the most graceful, of the 

 new Conifers introduced by the Scottish Society. At Balmoral, 

 Aberdeenshire, planted 26 years ago, it has attained a height 

 of 35 ft., with a girth of 2 ft. 6 in., at an altitude of over 

 900 ft., and of the many trees growing there, all seem to be 

 perfectly at home. At Castle Menzies, Perthshire, it is 72 ft. 

 high and 5 ft. 9 in. in girth ; at Munches, Kirkcudbrightshire, 

 69 ft. high and 4 ft. 3 in. in girth ; at Eiccarton, Midlothian, 

 68 ft. 6 in. high and 3 ft. 2J in. in girth — these being noted 

 places for fine collections of Conifers, and where this tree was 

 planted soon after its introduction to this country, exactly 

 40 years ago. At The Cairnies, Perthshire, at an altitude 

 of 630 ft., it is 63 ft. high and girths 6 ft. 9 in., the greatest girth 

 recorded. At Dolphinton, Lanarkshire, at an altitude of 830 ft., 

 it is 55 ft. high and 3 ft. 6 in. in girth, raised about 27 years 

 ago from home-grown seed. In England the tallest tree recorded 

 is at Linton Park, Kent, a well-known home for exotic Conifers, 

 where at an altitude of about 300 ft., at 30 years of age, it is 



