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on, only one place where it was killed, and one where it was injured during the winter of 1860-61, the former 
being at Cambridge, and the latter at Aldenham Abbey, Hertfordshire. Several of the localities were in 
the coldest parts of Scotland, and there none were injured : the tree in this respect escaping better even 
than the Scotch Fir. The variety Calabrica was reported on from 13 places, and at not one was it hurt. 
It is beyond doubt hardy in every part of Britain. In the nursery the tree requires to be frequently 
transplanted before it is planted out permanently. 
The following list contains the heights, ages, and date of measurement of some of the finest Laricios 
in the United Kingdom: 
County. 
Place. 
Height. 
Age. 
Date. 
County. 
Place. 
Height. 
Age. 
Date. 
England and Wales. 
England. 
H p»rl fnrri Qn 1 rr» 
WAbnrn Ahhpy. 
50 
A A 
30 
I Q 
1862 
Nottinghamshire ... 
Welbeck Abbey . 
3 ° 
20 
1862 
C' nrn wall 
Rownnoe. 
1862 
Staffordshire. 
Biddulph Grange. 
3 ° 
i860 
1 nrn wa 11 
nTrhirlv Park , 
44 
2 K 
1 y 
2 C 
1862 
Surrey . 
Kew . 
90 
1867 
U nrnwpll 
Penrose . 
O 0 
OO 
go 
1862 
Surrey . 
Oakham Park, Ripley. 
7 1 
42 
1867 
TT^n nicrn Qh 1 rp 
Coed Gnrh . 
0 0 
26 
0 w 
20 
1862 
Yorkshire . 
Sprotbro Hall . 
56 
1862 
Derbyshire. 
Elvaston. 
o w 
50 
29 
1862 
Derbyshire. 
Sudbury Hall. 
36 
3 ° 
1864 
Scotland. 
Derbyshire. 
Derby Arboretum . 
30 
24 
1862 
Sfnnpnpl n 
3 2 
IQ 
I 862 
Devonshire . 
Endleigh . 
60 
5 ° 
1863 
. 
0 ^ 
L y 
2 6 
1862 
Devonshire . 
Woodovis. 
55 
35 
1862 
Dumbarton . 
IvObb . 
So 
A A 
2 2 
1862 
Devonshire . 
Bicton. 
50 
30 
1862 
Mia-L-otnian. 
Peebles. 
xviccariun .. 
44 
A 2 
o z 
2 2 
1862 
Gloucestershire. 
Highnam Court. 
32 
15 
1863 
lVTnrfBl\r C'acflp* 
A £ 
s z 
? 
1862 
Herefordshire . 
Eastnor Castle. 
3 ° 
20 
1862 
r ertnsmre. 
4 j 
2 "> 
2 2 
1862 
Isle of Wight . 
Osborne. 
3 ° 
20 
1862 
Perthshire. 
i cxy lilUU III v— do LIC ... 
So 
n ry 
2n 
I 862 
Kent. 
Redleaf. 
50 
20 
1862 
Perthshire. 
S u 
•-> T 
1863 
T .anrac;hirp . 
Calderstone. 
CO 
1862 
Perthshire. 
IvClllOUr. .. 
o u 
0 1 
T .anra^hirp . 
Cuerden Hall. 
0 w 
2 7 
I 864 
T .anra^hirp . 
Cuerden Hall. 
4 j 
37 
a n 
26 
1864 
Ireland. 
T inenmQhirp 
.SiirlHrnnkp Holmp. 
1860 
Cork . 
Castle Martyr . 
47 
22 
1862 
T ineolnchirp 
Bloxholm Hall . 
4 ^ 
A O 
20 
1862 
Tyrone . 
Caledon Hill . 
35 
25 
1862 
N orfolk 
Hnlkham 
40 
60 
1862 
Tyrone . 
Cecil . 
32 
25 
1862 
, 
On the Continent specimens of large size are to be met with. That in the Jardin des Plantes is a 
true Corsican Laricio, planted by Ant. L. de Jussieu and Andre Thouin about 17 74 * ^ was accurately 
measured in 1861, when, as we are informed by M. Henri Vilmorin, “it was 25.70 metres (82 ft.) in 
height; but from that time until the present date (1883) it does not appear to have grown much. It 
suffered greatly in the terribly cold winter of 1879-80. It has thirty-three verticils, and the branches are 
nearly horizontal, while its general contour is pyramidal. The girth at the ground is 3.60 metres, and at 
1 metre above the ground 2.66 metres. The circumference of the head is 33 metres. A well-known 
specimen at Fromont is the Calabrian variety, which is about 82 feet high. At M. Vilmorin s estate at 
Barres, near Nogent-sur-Vernisson, the Calabrian and Corsican types have been grown for comparison, 
the soil and other conditions being equal. M. Vilmorin tells us that “a line of specimens of each kind 
were planted, about sixty years ago, the distances between the lines being from 5 to 6 metres. As regards 
height the two kinds are nearly equal, viz., from 20 to 22 metres, but the Corsican has more prostrate 
branches as compared with the Calabrian, the branches in the former being nearly horizontal. The 
Calabrian is now (1883) 65 centimetres in diameter, while the Corsican is only 50 centimetres. The 
difference is about the same as that between the Pinus sylvestris of Riga and that of Hagenau. 
M. Carriere mentions the following places in France as having good specimens of the Laricio , var. 
stricta: Harcourt (Calvados), in the grounds of the Society of Agriculture; at Barres; and at Ris (Seine 
et Oise), in the Garden of Fromont. 
Commercial Statistics. —In 1853 the price per 1000 of 1 year seedlings, 4s., and once transplanted, 
12s. ; 2 year seedlings, 7s., and twice transplanted, 21s. per 1000 ; young plants, 15 inches, is. each. In 
1863, 1 year seedlings, 3s. 6d., and once transplanted, 11s., young plants, 9 to 12 inches, 40s. per 1000; 
in 1873 1 year seedlings, 3s., and once transplanted, 10s. 6d., 9 to 12 inches, 35s. per 1000; in 1883 1 
year seedlings, 3s. 6d., 2 year do. 5s., 1 year and once transplanted, 7s. 6d., 9 to 12 inches, 21s. per 1000; 
specimen plants, 18 inches to 2 feet, 6d., 3 to 5 feet, 2s., 7 to 8 feet, 5s. to 7s. 6d. each. Price of seeds 
in 1863, 5s. 6d. per lb.; in 1873, 4s. 6d. ; and in 1883, 3s. 6d. per lb. 
