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recorded, “ which formed the collection in the original 
Arboretum.” Some of these still remain. According 
to Smith (p. 286), “ within a few yards of the entrance 
gates on Kew Green stands a specimen of P. Laricio 
(the Corsican Pine). In 1825 the late R. A. Salisbury 
informed me that he brought it from the south of 
France, in the year 1814; it is now (1880) 85 feet high, 
and the most conspicuous tree in the Gardens.” 
Ginkgo biloba (Salisburia adiantifolia), first introduced 
in 1754, was, according to Smith (p. 267), “ originally 
trained against a wall like a fruit tree ; upon the wall 
being taken down, and the branches cut away, it is now 
(1880) a fine tree. When against the wall one of its side 
branches early produced male flowers.” It again did so 
in 1895, and probably in previous years. 
Cedrus Deodara was, according to Smith (p. 287), 
introduced “ by the Hon. Leslie Melville, in the year 
1831, who, on visiting the Gardens, gave me a few seeds 
which he had loose in his pocket, one of which vegetated, 
and after several years nursing was planted in the old 
Arboretum. ... In 1864 it had attained a height 
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of 32 feet.” The tree became diseased and was taken 
down in 1888. Near its former position is one, now 
nearly as large, raised from seed ripened in England by 
Sir T. L). Acland, Bart. 
In 1843, by permission of the Queen, about 45 acres 
were added to the original Botanic Garden for the 
formation of a Pinetum. This included the ground 
formerly bounded by a wire fence on which the Palm 
House now stands, and to the north, west, and south 
of it. Smith (Records, p. 291) says: — “ The area was 
planted with conifers .... without any special 
