THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX. 



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Mundon Hall Oaks. — At " Mundon Hall, " near Maldon, there 

 is a magnificent collection of oak trees, no less than forty-nine fine 

 trees in a field of moderate size, and in an adjoining wood there is 

 another, making fifty in all. A large proportion of these trees have 

 trunks which have grown to the respectable size of from i6 to 

 17 feet circumference. It is quite wonderful to find so many well- 

 grown oaks in one small enclosure. The Hall, though modern, no 

 doubt replaced some older building, as an extensive moat formerly 

 surrounded both the hall and church. Very probably the group 

 of oaks is the remains of a park. 



Quendon Hall Oak. — One of the finest trees in Essex, in its full 

 luxuriance of growth without a sign of decay, is the oak at Quendon 

 Hall, Newport. Its stem is 20 feet 2 inches in girth at three feet 



Fig. 26. — Oak at Quendox Hall. 



'from the ground, and it is a truly magnificent tree. In a few 

 ! centuries, if no mishap occurs, this may rival the Great Hempstead 

 oak. In the same park there is another fine tree 17 feet 3 inches in 

 girth. 



j Mistley Oaks. — There appear to be oak trees in almost every 

 'district with trunks measuring from fifteen to nineteen feet in girth. 

 In the park at INIistley, near the " Dairy Farm," is an oak in luxuriant 

 growth (fig. 27), the boughs of which cover a circle of \\o\ feet 

 in diameter, the trunk being 16 feet 8 inches in circumference at 

 jfive feet from the ground On the verge of a hill in the north-east 

 of the park, is a tree the boughs of which cover a circle 



