Few persons, I imagine, have had the opportunity of beholding finer specimens of the Cembra Pine and of Abies Canadensis (the Hemlock Spruce) than those now growing in the pleasure grounds at Osberton Hall. The Pinus Cembra is nearly 50 feet in height, and measures, at 20 feet from the ground, 60 feet in circumference, and the trunk at bottom girths 8 feet. Few of the Pinus tribe are more beautiful than this; its handsome conical shape, and short rigid horizontal branches, combined with its color, render it particularly attractive. It certainly deserves more extensive cultivation than it receives, for, planted as a single specimen, it is really magnificent. Opposite this tree stands the Hemlock Spruce above alluded to; its height is nearly equal to that of Cembra, and it measures at one yard from the ground 160 feet in circumference; its graceful boughs bending down to the ground and forming one of the most delightful objects I ever saw. Both specimens nre in the best of health and growing vigorously.

The soil these trees are in is very light, and the subsoil sand and gravel. - Edward Bennett, Gard. Chron.