Ardkinglas, in the same county, are trees over 70 feet, which in that wet climate flourish exceedingly.
In the Keillour Pinetum, near Balgowan, in Perthshire, a tree growing in boggy soil was, in 1904, 90 feet high by 7 feet 3 inches. It is not well furnished above, and is perhaps beginning to suffer from the nature of the soil. At Keir, Dunblane, there is a tree which in 1904 measured 82 feet high by 9 feet 3 inches in girth. This tree’ was twenty-eight years old in 1891, and then measured 55 feet by 4 feet 2 inches. At Abercairney, Perthshire, there is a fine tree, which in 1904 was 91 feet by 8 feet 4 inches. This tree? was about thirty years old in 1891, and then measured 58 feet by 4 feet 6 inches.
At Durris, Aberdeenshire, there is a good tree, which Mr. Crozier measured in 1904 as 82 feet high by 9 feet 6 inches in girth, When I saw it in 1907 it had increased to nearly 90 feet.
The largest tree in Ireland was formerly at Carton, which was reported in 1891 to be 80 feet high by 6 feet in girth, The top was blown off by the gale of February 1903, and when seen by Henry in the autumn of that year, the tree measured 67 feet by 9 feet 6 inches. At Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, a fine specimen was, in 1906, 86 feet by 7 feet 2 inches; and at Coollattin, in the same county, another measured 63 feet by 6 feet 4 inches. At Powerscourt I measured one in 1903 which was about 87 feet by 74 feet.
Abies grandis thrives very well in north-western Germany, and according to Count Von Wilamitz-Méllendorf* grows at Gadow faster than any other silver fir, a specimen figured being 25 metres by 1.40 metre when only twenty-five years old. It also succeeds in some parts of Denmark, where Hansen‘ states that a specimen planted in 1864 had attained, in 1891, 53 feet by 6 feet. (H.J.E.)
1 Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 531 (1892).
2 Ibid. 527.
3 Mitt. D. Dendr. Ges., 1907, p. 138.
4 Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 469 (1892).
