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He also measured some at 3 and 6 feet to show their rate of growth as compared with other trees, as follows:—

A tree planted in the pleasure ground at Cloverley by the late Mr. W.E. Gladstone in 1872, now measures 56 by 8½ feet; another planted Jan. 1, 1864, is now 65 by 11 feet.

In Scotland, the Wellingtonia has not attained as great a height as in England, but seems to grow well in many places. The finest I have seen is at Murthly, planted in 1857; this in 1891 measured 66½ feet by 9 feet 3 inches, and when | measured it in September 1906, had increased to 86 feet by 12 feet 5 inches. There is one at Castle Menzies which Hunter says was planted out of a pot in 1858, when it cost three guineas, and in 1883 measured 44 feet by 9 feet 3 inches. This has not grown much taller, though it had attained the immense girth of 21 feet when I last saw it in 1907. At Smeaton-Hepburn, East Lothian, a tree, planted in 1855, was measured in 1905 by Henry as 78 feet by 12 feet g inches. At Keir, Perthshire, there are several trees, the tallest of which measured, in the same year, 71 feet by 9 feet. At Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, a tree planted in 1857 and reported[1] to be 50 feet by 8 feet 4 inches in 1891, was, in 1904, 68 feet by 11 feet.

The largest trees, reported[2] by Renwick and M'Kay, are one at Buchanan Castle, Stirlingshire, which was 71 feet high by 9 feet 3 inches in girth in 1900,

  1. ↑ Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 501 (1892).
  2. ↑ Brit. Assoc. Glasgow, 1901, Fauna, Flora, and Geology, 144.
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