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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



KILKENNY. 



Woodstock. Lady Louisa Tighe. 

 Altitude, 400 feet. Soil, light loam ; subsoil, sandy. 

 Correspondent : Mr. William Gray, The Gardens, Woodstock, Inistioge. 



Botanical Name 



Age 



Height 



Girth at 

 5 It. up 



Diameter of 

 Branches 



Exposure 



Remarks 





Years 

 ears 



Feet 



Ft. In. 



Feet 











61 



Q 

 O 



D 



48 



KB. 



Very ornamental. 









50 



A 



q 



34 



>> 



Fine specimen. 



Menziesii 



42 



62 





n 



40 









42 



57 



4 



6 



24 





Very ornamental. 



,, nobilis 





30 



4 



0 



26 





Fine ; but loses leader. 



,, Nordmanniana ... 



40 



49 



4 



10 



27 



>> 



Handsome tree. 



Araucaria imbricata ... 



59 



Oi 



8 



4 



oi 





Grand specimen. 





30 



40 



4 



2 



26 



open. 



Fine : very much exposed. 





46 



52 



4 



9 



23 



N.E. 



Splendid specimen. 





66 



78 



9 



0 



46 



M 





Cryptomeria japonica... 



— 



48 



6 



2 



28 



»J 



)> >> 







52 



5 



0 



21 





)) >) 



Cupressus Lawsoniana 



28 



34 







18 





Fine ; fast growing. 







45 



5 



6 



28 





Fine specimen. 







48 



4 



6 



24 











78 



10 



9 



42 



>> 



i\Iost ornamental of Pines. 



„ Lambertiana ... 





50 



4 



0 



24 





Very fine specimen. 







45 



4 



8 



28 



»> 







60 



7 



9 



34 





)> )> 



Taxodium sempervirens 





68 



10 



4 



36 



>> 



A handsome tree. 







60 



7 



9 



34 



>> 



,, quick grower. 







50 







27 



»> 



A perfect pyramid. 



Wellingtonia gigantea 



27 



60 



6 



4 



29 



»> 



Very fine specimen. 



General Remarks. — The newer Conifers w^ere planted here in considerable 

 numbers soon after they were introduced or became popular, and many of them 

 have' reached a good size and form beautiful specimens. Those given in the table 

 are among the most ornamental tre^s of their kind here, although they may not 

 always be the very largest. The exact ages of many of them are not recorded, 

 and are omitted in the table. Most of the coniferous family that are hardy in 

 Britain thrive well in our light sandy loam, on an open sandy, or red sandstone, 

 subsoil, of a very poor quality. Some species make remarkably well-furnished 

 and very ornamental trees, particularly Ahies ceplialonica, A. Morinda, Araucaria 

 imhricaka, the Cedars, Cryptomerias, Cypresses, Pinus insigrds, Taxodiuvi semper- 

 virens, Tlntyopsis horealis, Wellingtonia gigantea, and some others. In looking 

 through some old records to find the ages of the Conifers, I came across the 

 following note about Ahies Douglasii, which may be of interest: "An Abies 

 Douglasii, planted in 1839, was cut down in 1870, being too near the fine 

 specimen of A. ceplialonica. It measured 62 feet in height, with a girth of 9 feet 

 4 inches at the butt, and 5 feet 10 inches at 4 feet from the ground" — a large 

 bulk of timber for a growth of 31 years. A few years ago, we cut down a good- 

 sized tree of Taxodium sempervirens (Redwood), and used the timber for cabinet 

 work. The wood was found to be smooth, of a beautiful colour and grain, and 

 took on a fine polish. 



