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vol. iii. p. 58 (1865); and some of them are taken from measurements made two or three years ago. 
The most of the measurements were taken about 1864, but the supposed ages of the trees are given 
so far as known; and as the earliest importations of seed have been above specified, there can be little 
difficulty in fixing an approximate date to the measurements. 
At Windsor Castle there is a plant 
Height. 
Ft. In. 
21 O 
Supposed 
Years of 
Age. 
IO 
At Bownnoe, Cornwall, 
Height. 
Ft. In. 
14 O 
Supposed 
Years of 
Age. 
IO 
n 
Do. one . 
13 
0 
IO 
„ Denbigh, 
14 
0 
IO 
Bidlon, Devonshire, . 
19 
9 
9 
„ Eggesford, Devon, 
14 
0 
— 
>> 
Do. 
18 
0 
9 
„ Kew, Surrey, . 
14 
0 
IO 
Goodwood Park, Sussex, 
l8 
0 
11 
„ Halston Hall, Salop, . 
14 
0 
IO 
>> 
Watcome, .... 
l8 
0 
7 
,, Wellbeck Abbey, Nottingham, 
14 
0 
— 
Murthly Castle, Perthshire, . 
18 
0 
— 
„ Ambleside, Westmoreland, 
14 
0 
8 
>> 
Castle Martyr, Cork, . 
18 
0 
7 
„ Castle Ashby, Northampton, . 
13 
0 
8 
jj 
Bagshot (Mr Waterer’s Nursery), 
18 
6 
10 
„ Taymouth Castle, Perth, 
J 3 
0 
11 
Redleaf, Kent, 
17 
2 
— 
„ Glasslough, Co. Monaghan, 
13 
0 
13 
» 
Elvaston, Derbyshire, 
16 
6 
11 
„ Borthwick Hall, Mid-Fothian, 
14 
4 
11 
j? 
Tortworth Court, Gloucester, 
l6 
0 
11 
„ Dropmore, Buckingham, 
12 
0 
8 
5 ) 
Fairlawn Park, Kent, 
l6 
0 
8 
„ Norcliffe, Chester, 
12 
0 
8 
5> 
Rosehall, Stirling, 
l6 
0 
11 
„ Rolleston Hall, Stafford, 
12 
0 
9 
)9 
Singleton, Carmarthen, 
15 
6 
8 
„ Balgowan, Perth, 
12 
0 
7 
?> 
Bedgebury Park, Kent, 
15 
1 
— 
„ Camperdown, Forfar, . 
12 
0 
11 
5» 
Highnam Court, Gloucester, . 
15 
0 
11 
. ,, Greenock Cemetery, Renfrew, 
12 
0 
10 
5 ? 
Bryanstone, Dorset, . 
15 
0 
11 
„ Castle Kennedy, Wigtown, 
12 
0 
9 
Fordell, Fife, .... 
15 
0 
— 
„ Somerville, Co. Meath, 
12 
0 
11 
>> 
Cecil, Co. Tyrone, 
i 5 
0 
10 
„ Charlesfort, Co. Meath, 
12 
0 
5 
a 
Fambton Castle, Durham, 
H 
6 
9 
„ Biddulph Grange, Stafford, 
11 
0 
8 
yy 
Riccarton, Mid-Fothian, 
14 
0 
11 
„ Eastnor Castle, Hereford, 
11 
0 
6 
yy 
Basing Park, Hants, . 
14 
0 
0 
9 
,, Osborne, Isle of Wight, 
11 
0 
11 
So far as we can learn from the success which has attended it in these and other counties, there does 
not appear to be any great distinction in favour of one kind of district more than another. If we at times 
seem to fall upon faCts from which we might hope tq draw some general conclusion, others direCtly 
contradicting them presently warn us against hasty generalisation. For instance, Mr Rogers, writing 
from Cornwall, says, “ The plant does not like our moist climate, and I scarcely know one thoroughly 
good specimen in this county.” But Mr Dorrien, writing from Ashdean, Sussex, says, “ I have three 
seedling plants now about 4 feet high, which have never suffered in the least from either cold or winds, 
and I am much exposed to the sea-breezes d We have seen that it is apparently more susceptible to the 
effeCt of winds than frost, or other trying influences ; but Mr Blackie, the gardener at Revesby Abbey, 
Lincolnshire, reports quite the reverse : “ This does well everywhere,” says he, “ if exposed to all the 
winds ; plants here do much better in open places than in sheltered. I am convinced that the reason 
of pieces dying off arises simply from want of air, at least ours has not a dead leaf; formerly, when more 
sheltered, pieces were often dying.” 
Notwithstanding this testimony we think the opposite opinions are better founded, as they are more 
numerous ; and the two points which we recommend to be chiefly guarded against are, too great ex¬ 
posure, and a cold wet soil. Mr Kirby Hedges (Wallingford Castle) mentions an instructive 
illustration of the importance of a judicious location of this species. He says: “ I recolleCt, in 1862, 
seeing some plants of the Wellingtonia , about 7 or 8 feet high, at Beauport, the late Sir Charles 
Lamb’s place, near St Leonard’s, which were so severely injured by the frost that there was little 
hope of their recovering ; but they were growing, or rather existing, in low wet ground, and the wonder 
to me was, that they could have borne any shock at all. One of the finest specimens I ever saw was 
at this place ; and it was quite uninjured, growing , however , on the high ground'd 
The rapidity of the growth of these trees must not be passed over without notice, 2^ and 3 feet 
being common growths in a single year ; but it sometimes happens that where the plant has escaped 
apparently unhurt from the severity of the preceding winter, or other unfavourable circumstances, its 
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