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THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX. 



Screens Oaks. — There are some fine old oak trees at " Screens," 



Fk,. i6. — Oak at Screens. 

 Girth, 26 feet. 



the trunks of which measure from twenty-one to upwards of twenty- 

 six feet in circumference. 



Writtle Oaks. — In a hedge near Writtle Park, there is an oak 

 with a trunk measuring 31 feet in circumference. This was almost 



Fig. 17. — Oak at Whittle. 

 Bole, 31 feet circutnference. 



destroyed forty-five years ago by a fire lighted by a boy employed 

 for scaring birds. There is also a fine oak in Writtle Park (fig. 18), . 



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