196 ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW 
Stone Pine 
(Pinas Pinea). 
are held together by iron supports. Near the Pagoda is another 
tree ; this has a clean trunk for about half its height, which 
is 70 feet. 
No tree in Kew has a more individual or more characteristic appear- 
ance than the Stone Pine, of which a picture is here given. It stands 
a few yards to the north of the Cactus House. Its 
short trunk and wide-spreading, low branches render 
it quite distinct among pines. It is a familiar object 
in the Italian landscape. The famous forest of Ravenna, celebrated 
by Byron, was composed of this tree, but it was destroyed by the 
great frost of 1879-1880. 
The Sugar Pine of California and Oregon is one of the most remark- 
able of its kind. It grows to a height of more than 
fp^ ar PmC 200 feet, and its cones are sometimes 18 inches long. 
V mU , S \ The best example at Kew, which is in the Pinetum, 
Lambertiana). . , f , , . . 
is 65 feet high. 
The Sweet Chestnut thrives exceptionally well in the dry, hot soil 
of Kew, and some fine specimens occur in the Arboretum. The 
largest is in the Northern Pinetum, close to the 
Sweet Chest- collection of Old World firs. Its trunk is 20|- feet 
nu { as anea circumference. Another tree, midway between 
this and King William’s Temple, is not so large, 
but is remarkable for the spiral arrangement of the corrugations 
of the trunk. 
Of the many beautiful trees that have been introduced into 
Kew from North America, not one is more striking or more attractive 
than the Tulip-tree. Near the northern entrance to 
the Rhododendron Dell, and close to the big plane 
\ already mentioned, there is a finely proportioned 
example, which, although not so large as others in the 
United Kingdom, is still a notable specimen. It is 80 feet high, 
and its trunk is 9 feet 9 inches in girth. It flowers freely almost 
every summer. 
The Turkey Oak thrives exceedingly w r ell in the Kew soil. A 
specimen of magnificent dimensions, near the Sun 
urkcy Oak j em pi e> j s one 0 f the historic group planted here 
C err l s Sj in 1762. It is 80 feet high, and its trunk is 13 feet 
8 inches in girth. The nobly-proportioned head of 
branches is no feet across. There is another good example of Turkey 
