Aged Yew Tree near Dover. 



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hue; the coats of the egg, which appear two at fewest, by 

 close inspection are found to be clouded with numerous and 

 very minute white freckles, and these produce the resemblance 

 to ground glass, already mentioned ; the jelly within the egg 

 is viscous. — J. D. 



Art. IX. Some Account of an aged Yetv Tree in Buckland Church- 

 yard, near Dover. By the Rev. W. T. Bree, M.A. 



A noble wreck, in ruinous perfection.' 



Sir, 



In Buckland churchyard, about a mile from Dover, there 

 stands a yew tree {fig. 9.), of such high antiquity and sin- 



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gular conformation, that a few remarks on it may not, perhaps, 

 be without interest, or be deemed altogether foreign to the 

 general object of this Magazine. When we consider the very 

 slow growth of the yew, and its equally tardy progress towards 

 decay, we may safely rank the present specimen among the 

 very oldest vegetable remains to be found in the kingdom, not 



