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States with less vigour and rapidity than the Colorado form; but is equally hardy, and has attained 40 to 50 feet in height in New England.

Among the numerous trees that I have measured I find it difficult to say which is the finest specimen. The one at Linton Park was the largest recorded at the time of the Conifer Conference, when it was 64 feet by 8 feet 7 inches. In 1902 I found it to be 85 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, a great increase in ten years (Plate 219).

There is, however, a tree at Fonthill Abbey which I believe to be A. Lowzana, though I could not reach the branches in order to identify it, which, in 1906, measured 90 feet by 6½ feet, and resembled, by its short branches, the typical habit of A. magnifica.

At Highnam Court, Gloucester, there is a fine specimen which was figured by Kent ; according to Major Gambier Parry, it measured 77 feet by 9 feet 2 inches in 1906. I made it 80 feet by 94 feet in 1908. Another at Eastnor Castle is about 88 feet by 7 feet 4 inches.

In Herts there are several good trees, one at Essendon Place being 82 feet high by 5 feet 9 inches in 1907; another at Youngsbury, Ware, which was planted in 1866, being 68 feet by 5 feet 6 inches in the same year; and a third at Bayford- bury, which was 69 feet by 6 feet 9 inches in 1905.

A very remarkable specimen, narrow and almost columnar in habit, which was planted twenty-six years ago, was seen by Henry at Crowsley Park, Oxfordshire, the seat of Colonel Baskerville, and measured, in 1907, 71 feet by 6 feet.

In Wales there is a very fine tree at Hafodunos, which Henry measured, in 1904, as 87 feet by 7 feet 9 inches; and I saw one at Glanusk Park in Breconshire, which was over 80 feet high in 1906.

In Scotland this species is not usually so large as in the south, though it grows well even in the west, where I have seen good trees at Inveraray and Poltalloch ; and in the reports of the Conifer Conference it is generally described as thriving, and several trees of 4o to 50 feet high are mentioned. The largest we have heard of is at Abercairney, mentioned by Mr. Bean’ as 65 feet by 5 feet.

In Ireland the tree does not appear to have been often planted, and the largest reported at the Conifer Conference in 1891 was growing at Abbeyleix in Queen’s County, and measured 45 feet by 6 feet 10 inches. At Coollattin, Co. Wicklow, another was, in 1906, 52 feet by 4 feet 9 inches; and, in the same year, a fine specimen at Castlewellan, Co. Down, measured 67 feet in height and 9 feet in girth. (H.J.E.)

1 Kew Bulletin, 1906, p. 258, and Gard. Chron. xli. 168 (1907), where it is named through inadvertence A. concolor.