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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 



[March 



A FINE CEDAR IN BULSTRODE PARK, NEAR 

 BEAGONSFIELD, BUCKS. 



SIE, — The following particulars of a very fine cedar may be of 

 interest to your readers. This tree is situated in the park 

 about a quarter of a mile from the mansion. It does not appear to 

 have lost any of its massive branches during the gales of recent 

 years, nor are there the least signs of decay. An aged gardener 

 spoke of aged men having said that in their early days it had very 

 much the same appearance in size and leafage. The diameter of its 

 range of branches, wliich is nearly uniform, is one hundred feet ; 

 the circumference of the trunk of the tree at one foot from the 

 ground is 26i feet. At about ten feet from the ground the massive 

 limbs spread out, forming a magnificent head, the branches of which 

 bear some very fine cones in the green state, measuring two by 

 three. At this height the branches are twenty-five in number ; the 

 following list of their several circumferences makes a total of 107 

 feet 7 inches : — 



Ivy Cottage, Bulstrode Park. 



