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Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, 66 ft. high and 7 ft. 10 in. in girth ; 

 at Orton Longueville, Huntingdonshire, 65 ft. high ; at Eevesby, 

 Lincolnshire, 62 ft. high and 7 ft. 1 in. in girth ; at Golden 

 Grove, Carmarthenshire, 62 ft. high and 7 ft. in girth ; and at 

 Howick, Northumberland, 60 ft. high and 7 ft. 4 in. in girth, 

 and all generally described as being healthy and vigorous. The 

 tallest tree recorded in Ireland is at Castlewellan, Down, which 

 is 100 ft. in height, but no girth is given. The tree with the 

 greatest girth grows at Coollattin, and girths 10 ft. with a height 

 of 74 feet. At Markree, Sligo, a tree is recorded 80 ft. high and 



5 ft. 2 in. in girth ; on Fota Island, Cork, 80 ft. high and 



6 ft. 3 in. in girth ; and at Powerscourt, 75 ft. high and 7 ft. in 

 girth. Great numbers of the Douglas Fir have been planted all 

 over Ireland, where it promises to prove, in suitable soils and 

 situations, one of the best and most thrifty of forest trees. At 

 Powerscourt, in Wicklow, where almost every exotic Conifer that 

 will live in the open air has been planted, and where many of 

 them are thriving remarkably well, Lord Powerscourt thus 

 expresses his opinion of the Douglas Fir in a letter to the 

 Secretary in reference to this Conference : '* Of all the trees I 

 have planted here — and I have planted many thousands of the 

 rare Conifers — Abies Douglasii is the best and finest of them 

 all ; " very high praise indeed, coming from such an experienced 

 and impartial authority. The timber so quickly produced in 

 Britain by the Douglas Fir has been submitted to many severe 

 tests, and has come through them all with marked success, 

 proving it to be, even at the early age at which it has been 

 used, one of the very best of the coniferous woods grown in this 

 country. 



Abies grandis is another of the giants introduced by Douglas 

 in 1831 from North-west America, which grows with great 

 vigour in the British Isles under much the same conditions as 

 the Douglas Fir, and, not being at all fastidious as to soil, it is 

 sometimes seen outstripping that rapid grower on poor and cool 

 ground. It was not, however, till the days of Jeffrey and Lobb 

 that fertile seed of this valuable Conifer arrived in Britain in any 

 quantity, and the finest trees of it in Scotland are the produce of 

 the importations made by the Oregon Association. The tallest 

 tree recorded grows at Eiccarton, Midlothian, 83 ft. 3 in. high 

 and 3 ft. 8^ in. girth ; this particular tree having been carefully 



