The Gardener's Chronicle tells us that the trees of Pinus sinensis adjacent to the Wong Lung Kun Monastery, 50 miles from Canton, are very fine indeed; but they are exceeded in magnificence by those of the So Liu Kun Monastery, secluded at an altitude of about 800 feet, where six of them, within a radius of about 50 yards, in a dense mixed forest of luxuriant trees, averaged 11 feet 7 inches in girth at 6 feet from the ground, and about 150 feet in height. The largest of them was 15 feet 4 inches in circumference. A pine tree which had been blown down and was being cut up I measured, and found its height to have been 102 feet, circumference at 10 feet from the ground 7 feet 10 inches, and it had seventy-five annual rings.