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 Mayr's view of the specific distinctness of Picea hondoensis and Picea ajanensis be upheld, most of the specimens cultivated in this country under the latter name (and many also incorrectly labelled Alcockiana) must be renamed as Picea hondoensis.

The best specimen we have seen in England is a tree at Hemsted in Kent, which was planted by the Earl of Cranbrook in 1887, and, when measured by Elwes in 1905, was 44 feet high.

There is one at Benmore, near Dunoon, the property of H.S. Younger, Esq., which Henry measured in 1905 as 52 feet by 4 feet 4 inches, about twenty-five years planted.

At Fota, Co. Cork, there is a fine tree which, in 1904, Henry found to be 44 feet by 4 feet 3 inches.