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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ToELOisK, Isle of Mull. Marquis of Northampton. 

 Altitude, 30 to 100 feet. Soil, loamy and peaty ; subsoil, porous rock. 

 Correspondent : Mr. Charles Geierson, The Gardens, Torloisk, Tobermory. 



Botanical Name 



Age 



[5) 



Girth at 



eter of 

 iches 



losure 



Remarks 





K 



5 ft 



. up 



Diam 













Years 



Feet 



Ft. 



In. 



Feet 







Abies Douglasii 



35 



43 



5 



2 



27 



S.E. 



Grows vigorously. 





22 



37 



3 



6 



19 



5> 



>) >> 





35 



49 



4 



10 



34 





>» >> 



Araucaria imbricata . . . 



40 



39 



6 



2 



29 



>> 



A perfect specimen. 





35 



39 



4 



6 



23 



>J 



Doing well. 



Cupressus Lambertiana 



35 



43 



9 



3 



50 



J> 



Girth at 1 foot up. 



,, Lawsoniana 



35 



34 



8 



6 



23 





)> >> 



„ macrocarpa 



35 



42 



7 



6 



55 





i> >> 



Libocedrus decurrens... 



35 



37 



6 



3 



28 



M 







30 



55 



6 



0 



30 



M 



5J )» 





25 



21 



5 



0 



22 



>» 



>» »> 



Taxodium sempervirens 



35 



32 



5 



4 



19 



5> 



Leader often broken. 





35 



31 



6 



0 



22 



>> 



Girth at 1 foot up. 



General Remarks. — The above Conifers, and many others, grow and thrive 

 well here, especiall}^ when sheltered from the direct blast, ofE the Atlantic Ocean, 

 which sweeps over us from the west with great force. The soil is a good sandy 

 loam, or of a peaty nature, both resting on a porous, rotten rock, through which 

 water percolates freely, so that the heavy rainfall of the district never sours the 

 soil and is beneficial to the Conifers. Abies Boiiglasii, A. nohilis, and Taxodium 

 sempermrens grow very freely, but they are very liable to get their leaders 

 injured by the Atlantic gales, whenever they rise above the surrounding shelter. 

 Cupressus Lamhertiana and C. macrocarpa grow with great vigour, and seem to 

 luxuriate in the saline blast, forming remarkably healthy and wide-spreading 

 trees. Araucaria ivihricata and Pinus itisignis also grow vigorously, and 

 seem to be very suitable for the soil and climate. Abies Wehbiana, Thvyopsis 

 borealis, Cupressus Lawsoniana, Libocedrus decurrens, Cedrus Deodara, and others, 

 all thrive well and make beautiful specimens. Abies Webbiana is perfectly hardy, 

 and the tree of which the dimensions are given in the table is a splendid 

 specimen. The Araucaria mentioned above is a splendid tree, well furnished with 

 healthy branches from top to bottom, and this season bearing eighteen fine large 

 cones, from which w^e expect to get some fertile seeds. The Deodar is also bearing 

 cones, for the first time here. Some of the oldest and finest specimens of our 

 Conifers, especially the Cypresses, fork into several stems at a short height above 

 the ground, an objectionable feature which can be easily remedied if the trees 

 are properly looked after in their early stages of growth. Such forked and branchy 

 trees are very liable to be twisted and broken, or split to the ground, by high 

 winds or a heavy fall of snow. A careful attention to stopping all the leaders but 

 one when the trees are young will cause them to grow with a single stout stem 

 closely furnished with shapely compact branches and proof against injury from 

 either wind or snow. 



Among a fine healthy collection of Conifers growing at Duart House, the seat 

 of A. C. Guthrie, Esq., under the care of Mr. J. Macphail, the gardener, there is a 

 grand specimen of Araucaria imbricata in luxuriant health, and also bearing 



