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FACTS. 
No. 1.—At Twickenham Park, now Mr. Gosling’s, the banker, 
are two rows of very large cedars; two trees are most profusely co- 
vered with Ivy, and a very intelligent nurseryman (Mr. Burchel) 
proposed cutting its roots to preserve the trees, till I convinced 
him that these two were the largest trees, and that the Ivy 
seemed coéval with the cedars themselves, which they had cer- 
tainly not in the least injured. 
No. 2.—At Blickling, in Norfolk, the green-house stands be- 
tween two very large ‘fir trees; the biggest is covered with Ivy, 
the other is a bare pole and not so large, though evidently of the 
same date, and both equally healthy. But the old gardener could 
not be convinced, and only replied by an answer often made, viz. 
that the tree might perhaps have been still larger if it had not. 
been loaded with Ivy. 
No. 3.—The trees on Lord Hardwicke’s estate at Wimpole 
furnish very striking effects of Ivy: in the pleasure ground east 
of the house, the ity trees in the grove are most decidedly the 
tallest, largest, and most healthy. 
No. 4.—A large ash very near the road in Arrington is à cu- 
rious example of prejudice: it is a forked tree, one half naked, 
the other has been loaded with Ivy: the naked side shows strong 
symptoms of decay, the other is quite healthy : but under an idea. 
— (A suppose) of saving the tree, the Ivy has been recently cut off, 
and was hanging in vast masses, with stems of great bulk loosened 
from the tree without leaving any indenture in the bark of the 
tree :—but the Ivy is the offender ! | 
No. 5.—At Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire, the timber is 
generally of prodigious size, some oaks measuring twenty feet 
round at five feet from the ground, many are richly covered with. 
Ivy ;. 
