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At Nevill Court, near Tunbridge Wells, I measured a tree which, though only 48 by 44 feet in 1906, is one of the best shaped I have seen, with a very slender spire, as described by Lobb in California.

At Fonthill Abbey there is a tree about 72 feet by 54 feet, ina sheltered though elevated situation on greensand. At Osborne, in the Isle of Wight, a tree was 60 feet by 5 feet 9 inches in 1908, but this does not appear to be thriving, on account perhaps, of the dry soil.

At Ponfield, Hertford, the seat of P. Bosanquet, Esq., Henry saw in 1906 a tree, very thriving and about 25 feet in height; and in the same district, at High Canons, near Shenley, Mr. Clinton Baker showed me a tree 53 feet by 4 feet which bore about twenty cones in 1907. At Pampisford, Cambridgeshire, there is a tree, about 25 feet high, growing in a sheltered position, and very thriving.

At Monk Coniston, in Westmoreland, the seat of Victor Marshall, Esq., I have seen a tree which has borne cones, and which measured, in 1906, 60 feet by 5 feet.

Several others are mentioned by Kent: at Kenfield Hall,’ near Canterbury ; at New Court, and at Streatham, near Exeter; at Upcott, near Barnstaple; and at Warnham Court, near Horsham. A large tree at Orton Hall, Peterborough, was, before it was cut down in 1905, 59 by 6 feet, but became unhealthy owing to the soil being too heavy.

In Wales, where the species should grow well, I have seen no trees of any size.

In Scotland the only specimens I have seen are at Castle Kennedy and at Cawdor Castle, neither of which are large, and the climate of Scotland generally seems to be too cold for it.?

In Ireland Henry has seen specimens at Fota, in the south-west, a fine young tree which, in 1903, was 48 feet by 4 feet; at Castlewellan, in the north-east, another, in 1906, was 35 feet by 3 feet 2 inches; and a smaller one also exists at Glasnevin.

On the continent of Europe this tree is very rare, the only fine one I have seen being a tree at Pallanza in the nursery grounds of Messrs. Rovelli, which, in 1906, was about 70 feet by 7 feet, but not very healthy and bearing no cones.

M. Pardé states that there is a fine specimen in the domain of the National Society of Agriculture at Harcourt (Eure); and I sawa small one in M. Allard’s collection at Angers. (H.J.E.)

1 This tree produced cones in 1886. Cf. Gard. Chron. xxvi. 85 (1886).

2 The one specimen now remaining at Durris—between forty and fifty years of age—if it can possibly be taken as a fair example of the growth of the tree in this locality, proves it of little use for planting. It is quite healthy, but its growth is slow in proportion to that of 4. pect’nata.—(J.D. Crozier.)