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feet high by 7 feet 5 inches in girth, remarkable for its clean stem and short branches occurring only on the upper half of the tree. Another tree at Keillour, in the same county, was 91 feet by 7 feet 1 inch in 1904; and at Castle Kennedy, Wigtonshire, another measured in the same year 80 feet by 7 feet 10 inches. Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn reports one at Smeaton-Hepburn, East Lothian, which measured, in 1908, 84 feet by 8 feet 10 inches. It was planted in 1843.

At Blair Castle, a tree planted by the Duke of Atholl about forty-two years ago was, in 1904, 70 feet by 5 feet; and at Balmoral, though of no great size, it seems to be the best of the silver firs, and has endured a temperature of −15° without injury.

In Ireland, Abies nobilis thrives well. At Churchill, Armagh, there is a magnificent specimen, which in 1904 was covered with cones, and measured 73 feet by 8 feet 4 inches. At Curraghmore, Co. Waterford, a tree measured, in 1907, 75 feet in height by 10 feet in girth, At Powerscourt, a tree in 1903 was 59 feet by 6% feet. At Carton, in the same year, a tree measured 61 feet by 6 feet. At Birr Castle, King’s County, there is a very tall tree, which was reported’ in 1891 to be 83 feet high and 6 feet in girth. There is an avenue of this species at Woodstock, Kilkenny ; and good specimens are growing at Castlewellan in Down. Ina plantation behind the old deer park at Castle Martyr, Co. Cork, there is a very large tree of the glaucous variety, which, though I could not measure the height accurately, seems to be about 75 feet high and is 10 feet 4 inches in girth. (H.J.E.)

1 Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 557 (1892).