510 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Jardinb Hall. Sir A. Jardine, Bart. 



Altitude, 200 feet. Soil, light loam ; subsoil, sandy gravel. 



Correspondent : W. H. Maxwell, Esq., of Munches, Dalbeattie, 

 Eircudbrightshire. 



Botanical Name 



Age 



,^ 



to 

 'S 

 H 



Feet 

 67 



Girth at 

 5 ft. up 



Diameter of 

 Branches 



Exposure 



Remark 





Tears 

 63 



Ft. In. 

 10 6 



Feet 

 59 



N.E. 



Planted in 1828. 



General Kemarks. — This fine tree, which stands in the middle of the 

 garden, is figured in " Selby's Forest Trees," and is among the oldest of the 

 Douglas Firs in Britain, having been planted in 1828, as a seedling 2 feet high. 

 It is mentioned by Loudon as being 13 feet 2 inches high in 1887. In the same 

 year (1828) a Douglas Fir was planted at Hedgeley, Northumberland, which in 

 1842 was 28 feet high, and girthed 3 feet at 6 inches from the ground, and 2 feet 

 1 inch at 18 inches up; with a spread of branches 20 feet in diameter. 



The dimensions of the tree at Jardine Hall were at various periods as follows : 



Abies Douglasii, at Jardine Hall, Lockerbie : 



Tear 



Height 



Girth at 

 base 



Girth 

 1 ft. up 



Girth 

 3 ft. up 



Girth 

 5 ft, up 



Diameter of 

 Brauches 



Circum. of 



Branches 



Remarks 





Ft. 



Ft. In. 



Ft. In. 



Ft. In. 



Ft. In. 



Feet 



Feet 



Owing to a strong colony 



1828 



2 















1842 



25 





2 9 











of crows meeting in this 



1845 







3 8 











tree for the last 30 years 



1875 







11 0 





8 6 







or more, the top is much 



1880 







12 0 



10 3 





55 



170 



injured and broken, else 



1884 





15 6 



12 7 



11 0 



10 0 



60 



1 2 



it might have been over 



1887 



70 



1 16 0 





11 0 



10 0 



62 



1 



100 feet by this time. 



