536 



JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Scone. Earl of Mansfield. 



Altitude, 50 feet. Soil, loam ; subsoil, clay. 



Correspondent : Mr. Alexander Mackinnon, The Palace Gardens, Scone, 



Perth. 



Botanical Name 



Age 



Height 



airth at 

 5 ft. up 



Diameter of 

 Branches 



Exposure 



Rem arks 



i 



iYears 



Feet 



Ft. In. 



Feet 









30 



521 



5 4 



33 



Sheltd. 







.31 



41 



o o 



20 



N.E. 



Thriving specimen. 





31 



41-^ 



4 0 



16 



N. 



TTinp vio'Armm 1"tpp 





64 



83 



9 1 



42 



WNW 



X lilt: Ul t/t: , X wTt U U. ± u. t-lili U. 





31 



48i 



4 10 



29 



N. 



V Jg. IJcdlUli , glUvVo iciob. 





20 



19 





12 



J? 



JJCdULliLli liedlLllJ 1)1 CC. 





39 



71 



8 5 



56 



5 J 



Vigorous ; fine specimen. 





39 



72 



6 11 



43 





Fine tree ; in perf ct. health 



„ Nordmanniana ... 



31 



46^ 



4 3i 



22 



Sheitd. 



Kather going back. 





39 



47' 





25 



N. 



Healthy ; fine specimen. 



Araucaria imbricata ... 



39 



40 



4 6 



25 





Fine specimen, with cones. 





39 



52 



4 5 



31 





In good condition. 





37 



44 



4 41 



28 



s'.'e. 



Not thriving, as a rule. 



Cupressus Lawsoniana 



31 



29 



3 10 



18 



Sheltd. 



In perfect health. 





31 



43 



4 0 



24 



N. 



In good condition. 





39 



45 



4 6 



24 





Going back. 





31 



32 



3 6 



17 



KE. 



Doing fairly well. 





39 



7U 



5 11 



30 



N. 



Fine healthy tree. 





31 



50 



6 81 



32 





Doing fairly well. 



Taxodium sempervirens 



28 



42 



3 3 



17 



Sheltd 



In fine health ; grows well. 





31 



28 



3 8 



16 



N. 



Thriving w^ell. 





31 



31 





15 





Fine graceful tree. 



AVisliingtonia gigantea 



31 



60^, 



7 4 



19 



n'.e. 



i Vigorous ; fine specimen. 



General Kemarks. — These Conifers are all growing in the Pinetum in the 

 grounds at Scone Palace, and a record has been kept of them from the beginning. 

 The soil is a rather heavy, cool loam, resting on clay, on which most of the Firs 

 and Spruces thrive admirably, except the somewdiat tender species, such as Ahies 

 Iracteata, A Findron\ and A. WehViana. Among the more recently planted 

 species and varieties, Ahies ajanevtsis, A. AIcocMana, A. concolor tiolacea, A. 

 Engelmannii, A. E. glauca, and A. Pattoniana are all thriving well, and promising 

 to make handsome specimens. The Araucaria, Wellingtonia, Taxodium semper- 

 virens, Cupressus Lawsoniana, Thuya gigantea, and Thuyopsis horealis are all 

 vigorous and beautiful trees. Of the Pines, Finns monticola thrives best; 

 several others doing moderately well. 



