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The more vigorous and healthy branches near 
the top do not flower, and strange to say, the 
easterly side of the tree flowers more freely 
than any other. This all tends to prove that 
the Cladrastis is not a long-lived tree, and 
lest we should lose the effect of its fine autumn 
colour, planters should make a note of it 
wherever the conditions of soil and shelter 
permit, and seek to renew these dying veterans. 
PiNUS EXCELSA AND THE WeYMOUTH PiNE. 
— This Pine is, in my opinion, one of the 
finest Conifers we have, for wherever I plant 
it — including even Scotland and Ireland — it 
never fails in any exposure, bleak or sheltered, 
and in all soils. I find it grows quickest on 
light, sandy soils, and if the site is exposed the 
timber is best. In sheltered places it rushes 
up quickly, but the wood is soft from the 
Part of a Group of Cedars of Lebanon, at Whitton 
CEDARS OF LEBANON AT 
WHITTON. 
To demonstrate the value of grouping 
trees of the nobler sorts like the Cedar 
of Lebanon, we have the pleasure to 
show^ this month a viev^ of grouped 
Cedars of which the efFect is very good, 
although an even closer planting might 
have given taller stems. The impres- 
sion obtained from grouping such trees 
is far more effective than the usual way 
of isolated specimens. Our account of 
the Cedar of Lebanon appeared in the 
issue for October last, upon p. 291. 
Engraved for " Flora," from a Photo. 
large size of the annual rings. Its delicate 
bluish tone and spreading growth make it 
very eff^ective when grouped, either with a 
number of its kind or with other Pines. I 
rank it as one of the best kinds among the 
Pines, as I do Abies lasiocarpa among the 
Spruces. I have long struck the Weymouth 
Pine, its relative, out of my lists, as being a 
dangerous tree to plant anywhere in the 
neighbourhood of Beeches, as it is the one 
tree that breeds the insect which attacks the 
Beech, causing what is known as the " Beech- 
blight." In numberless instances I have been 
asked to advise upon this Beech disease, and 
have invariably found the Weymouth Pine to 
be the contaminating source. I have just had 
an instance of this at Bear Wood, where the 
fine Beeches were being killed, this being due 
