STATISTICS OF CONIFERS IX THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 



WESTMEATH. 

 Watelstown. Hon. T. Harris Temple. 



Altitude, 200 feet. Soil, light loam, peaty, deep bog ; subsoil, gravel. 

 Corresjmident : Mr. Egbert Anderson, The Gardens, Waterstown, Athlone. 



Botanical Name 



Age 



Height 



Girth at 

 5 ft. up 



Diameter of 

 Branches 



Exposure 



Remarks 





Years 



Feet 



Ft. 



In. 



Feet 









20 



27 



2 



1 



17 



open 



Healthy ; fine specimen. 







23 







22 





Grows well in wet bog. 





30 



60 



4 



9 



38 





Vigorous specimen. 





24 



35 



2 



6 



22 





Healthy ; line tree. 







56 



7 



4 



51 



)j 



Very fine specimen. 



Nordmanniana ... 



30 



28 



2 



5 



]9 





j> ;> 





30 



28 



5 



2 



31 





5» 5) 





48 



64 



G 



0 



31 



sheltd. 





Oupressus Lawsoniana 



30 



33 



4 



7 



23 





5> yt 



„ macrocarpa 





43 



4 



8 



45 



W. 









50 



6 



0 



41 



sheltd. 









62 



7 



3 



40 





" " 



Taxodium sempervirens 



30 



41 



3 



9 



20 









30 



26 







31 





Very ornamental. 



Wellingtonia gigantea 



30 



37 



4 



9 



22 



open 



Handsome specimen. 



General Eemarks.— Most of the hardy kinds of Conifers grow well here, 

 and particularly the species named in the above list. On bog land very few 

 species are at all satisfactory ; but the Hemlock Spruce takes kindly to it, and 

 Pimis excelsa is thriving fairly well on the drier parts, Abies Douglasii grows 

 with great vigour on the warm loam, on a gravelly subsoil, where also A. firandi)--, 

 A. Menziesii, Cujjtcssus Lan'soniana, C. viacrocar^ja, and Phms buignjs thrive 

 remarkably well. 



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