perfection, and seems to be in most places a slow grower. The seedlings which I have raised from Japanese seed will not grow on my soil, from which I infer that lime is distasteful to them.
Remarkable Trees
The largest tree that we know of is at Carclew in Cornwall. This was reported in 1891 to be 45 feet by 2 feet 8 inches, and when I measured it in 1902 had increased to about 60 feet by 4 feet. Another at Pencarrow, in the same county, was about 59 feet by 6 feet 5 inches in 1908. At High Canons in Herts, Mr. Clinton Baker showed me a specimen which bore cones in 1907 and measured 47 feet by 3% feet.
There is a good-sized tree at Grayswood, with longer and less sharp-pointed leaves than usual, and another at Tortworth which in 1905 was 30 feet by 3 feet g inches. A tree planted at Bagshot Park by the late Emperor of Germany on July 10, 1880, was, when I saw it in 1907, 36 feet by 3 feet 11 inches.
In Scotland! the best that we have seen is at Castle Kennedy, which, in 1904, Henry found to be 44 feet by 5 feet 5 inches. Another in a wood at Munches, Dalbeattie, was 30 feet by 24 feet. Trees were reported to be growing in 1891” at Balmoral, and at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire, but we have not identified them.
In Ireland there were thriving trees at Fota 25 feet high, and bearing cones in 1907 ; at Hamwood, Co. Meath, 36 feet by 2 feet 10 inches in 1904; and at Powers- court, which in 1906 was bearing cones, and measured 39 feet by 3 feet 11 inches. (H.J.E.)
ABIES HOMOLEPIS
- Abies homolepis, Siebold et Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. ii. 17, t. 108 (1844); Masters, Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 823, and Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xviii. 518 (1881).
- Abies Tschonoskiana, Regel, in Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 32 (1865).
- Pinus Harryana, M‘Nab, Proc. R. Irish Acad. ii. 689, Pl. 47, f. 16 (1876).
This species, imperfectly described by Siebold and Zuccarini, is considered by Mayr to be a form of A. brachyphylla. It is different in the pulvini of the branchlets, in the shape and arrangement of the leaves, and in the position of the resin-canals in the latter. Specimens in cultivation, described below, agree with the type of Siebold and Zuccarini’s species in the Leyden Museum. The cones are unknown; and it is possible that it may be a juvenile form or variety of 4. brachyphylla; but in the present state of our knowledge, it is best kept distinct.
1 Has been tried at Durris repeatedly, but does not live beyond a year or two. Quite unfitted for our climate. —(J.D. Crozier.)
2 Gard. Chron. x. 458 (1891).
