Ne Mr. Rerton’s Observations on the 
~ Ivy; but I could not perceive any difference between those and 
'the more naked trees, except that they appeared more luxuriant 
in the extremity of their branches ; and I observed many coupled 
trees and forked trees under similar circumstances. 
No. 6.—At Langold in Yorkshire, (a seat of Gally Knight, esq.) 
the trees are not generally so large as those at Stoneleigh ; but the 
two places agree, in the Ivy not having been so much destroyed 
as is generally the case; and, both in examining the trees near 
each other and those growing from the same root, I was con- 
firmed in my opinion. 
No. 7. 
many very large old thorns in the paling of Hatfield park, so 
covered with Ivy, that in the winter. of 1808 I thought it an 
evergreen hedge, and the sprays of the thorns were hard] y visible ; 
yet when compared with a few thorns in the same lane, they ap- 
peared to be equally vigorous. In the last summer I was surprised 
to miss the Ivy, till I perceived that the foliage of the thorns 
had so entirely covered it, that the Ivy was only a secondary ob- 
ject in Nature’s great plan of decoration, and seemed humbly 
to retire into the shade of more luxuriant ornament, to come for- 
ward again, as I have lately seen it this last winter, when the 
neighbouring bushes were reduced to mere sticks: 
* Vernantesque comas tristis ademit Hyems.” 
No. 8.—At Woburn Abbey the timber has so generally been 
denuded of Ivy, that I despaired of finding any example, except 
in the elm near the Duke's apartment, and which is very conspi- 
cuous (in winter) from its profuse mantle of Ivy. But this was 
deemed inconclusive, althougb much superior in growth to some 
other trees near the same spot, because it was supposed that 
they might have contributed to its growth by sheltering it from 
the south-west winds. I afterwards discovered in the park a re- 
markable 
