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476 well at Murthly and other places. At Smeaton-Hepburn, a tree,’ planted in 1847, was, in 1902, 6½ feet high and 63 feet in girth. At Fordell, in Fifeshire, the property of Lord Buckinghamshire, 1 am informed by Mr. Sibbald that a number of cedars were planted by Mr. Fowler, then head gardener, 42 years ago on a damp sandy soil and well sheltered by other trees. The average height of the Algerian cedars in 1906 was 48 feet, with an average girth of 4 feet 4 inches, and of the deodars 33 feet by 3½ feet. The majority of them are in good health, though the Algerian have made by far the best trees, and as the soil and climate of Fifeshire do not seem to be so favourable to the growth of trees generally as those of Perthshire, Morayshire, or parts of Ross-shire, this seems to prove that the tree may be planted in Scotland with good hopes of success.

The finest Atlas cedar in Ireland is at Fota, and is of the glaucous variety. It was planted, according to Lord Barrymore, in 1850, and measured in 1904 83 feet high by 7 feet 7 inches in girth (Plate 138). At Carton, the seat of the Duke of Leinster, a tree, which is, from its habit, apparently an Atlas cedar, was, in 1903, 80 feet high by 9 feet in girth, At Powerscourt a glaucous specimen was in the same year 50 feet high by 5 feet in girth.

In the south of France and North Italy this tree grows better and faster than in England. Perhaps the best that I have seen are in the public garden at Aix en Savoie, where there is a grove of splendid trees 90 to 95 feet high, though only planted in 1862. They average 6 to 7 feet in girth, and there are many self-sown seedlings near them. On the shores of the Lago Maggiore the tree succeeds per- fectly, several fine trees in the grounds of the Villa Barbot near Intra being 90 feet or over, and one 7½ feet in girth. It seemed to me likely to become a most valuable forest tree in this region.

Young trees with pendulous leader. Branchlets always pendulous, grey and densely pubescent. Leaves up to 2 inches long, as thick as broad. Cones large and broad, ellipsoid, 4 to 5 inches long by 3 to 4 inches in diameter, rounded at the apex ; scales 2 to 24 inches wide, with claw not inflected, usually less tomentose than in the other cedars.

1 Sir A. Buchan-Hepburn in Proc. Berwick Nat. Club, xviii, 210 (1904).