The following, says Mr. Robert Coupar in the Journal of Forestry, are the dimensions of a gigantic specimen of the Silver Fir which is growing within four hundred yards of Kinnaird Castle, Forfarshire, the seat of the Earl of Southesk. It is about 80 feet in height, and measures 22 feet 6 inches in circumference of stem at one foot from the ground; measuring 14 feet 11 inches in girth at three feet from the ground. At five feet from the base a large limb springs from the stem, measuring 9 feet 3 inches in girth at a foot from the point of junction. Excepting this large limb the tree has a clear stem of about 18 feet in height to where it divides into several limbs, forming a large branching top. The spread of the branches averages about 56 feet in diameter, having an entire circumference of 176 feet, and forming a fine shapely head.

One in Germantown, Philadelphia, less than one hundred years old, reached 100 feet high, but is now rapidly on the decline.