The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 277
to be 9 ft. in diameter. Portions of it were very hard andfirm, while others had much decayed. Experimental Garden, Inverleith, January, 1837. growing at the Whim^ in Peeblesshire. 255 Similar anomalies in the growth of the spruce fir are not un- frequent in the case of the black spruce, ^bies… … about 40 years old; but its height is not mentioned. Mr.Gorrie adds that a natural seedling, which had sprung up notfar distant from the mother tree, and was apparently about12 years of age, was also, in its turn, already surrounded bya numerous and healthy progeny of young trees, proceedingfrom…
