The gardener, Mr. Hunter, informs us that it is 82 feet high by 10 feet 2 inches in girth; but has never coned. There is a fine tree at Oakly Park, Ludlow, measuring 70 feet by 5 feet 8 inches in 1908.
At Hardwicke, Bury St. Edmunds, Sir Hugh Beevor measured a tree in 1904, which was 63 feet high and 8 feet 11 inches in girth, At Fornham Park, also in Suffolk, he found a tree, which was planted in 1866, 50 feet by 6 feet 7 inches; and says that its growth kept pace with that of an Atlantic Cedar close by. Col. Thynne has taken a photograph of a narrow, pyramidal, symmetrical tree at Longleat, which was 65 feet high by 7 feet 9 inches in 1906 (Plate 213). At Dogmersfield Park, Hants, the seat of Sir H. Mildmay, I measured a well-shaped tree, 65 feet high by 6 feet 10 inches.
There are several good trees at Lilford Park, Oundle, growing on oolitic lime- stone; but Lord Lilford informed Henry that these were not raised from seed brought home by his father, and could give no confirmation of Bunbury’s statement that the latter found the tree growing wild in Portugal.
At Essendon Place, Hertford, a slender tree was 68 feet high by 5 feet 1 inch in 1907. At Merton Hall, near Thetford, Norfolk, there is a tall tree, 75 feet by 5 feet 10 inches, the stem being bare of branches for 30 feet.
At Highnam, Gloucestershire, Major Gambier Parry reports a fine specimen, growing in the pinetum, which measured 60 feet by 6 feet 8 inches in 1906.
At the Rookery, Down, Kent, the gardener, Mr. E.S. Wiles, reported in 1906 a fine specimen, 70 feet by 9 feet, which is growing on stiff yellow loam, intermingled with flint and clay, resting on chalk.
In Wales the best that I have seen is a tree at Bodorgan, Anglesey, the seat of Sir G.E. Meyrick, which in 1906 was about 70 feet high, and had some large witches’ brooms growing on it.
In Scotland, we have seen none of more than average size, a tree at Scone being about the best, and, generally speaking, the climate seems too cold for this tree. Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, however, reports one at Smeaton-Hepburn, East Lothian, which was 60 feet by 7 feet 9 inches in 1908.
In Ireland, there is a tree at Curraghmore, Co. Waterford, which the gardener, Mr. D. Crombie, reported in 1905 to be 65 feet high by 8 feet in girth. At Carton, the seat of the Duke of Leinster, there is a good tree, 54 feet high by 8 feet in girth in 1903. At Coollattin, Wicklow, another was 55 feet by 4 feet 10 inches in 1906.
Prof. Hansen states’ that fine trees of 50 feet high or more may be seen in several Danish gardens, where it has produced cones; and that the tree exists in the south of Sweden and Norway.
In the eastern United States it? never really flourishes, although it is possible
to keep it alive for many years in favourable situations, even as far north as eastern Massachusetts. (H.J.E.)
1 J. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. 476 (1892).
2 Sargent, Silva N. Amer, xii. 100, adnot. (1898).
