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By Richard Ussher. 



N connection with the above valuable paper, it may be 

 interesting to place on record, by means of this 

 journal, the present dimensions of some other ex- 

 ceptionally fine yew trees in Derbyshire, chief among which is the 

 one in Doveridge churchyard, mentioned by Mr. J. C. Cox in 

 his Notes on that church. Its measurements, taken by Lord 

 Waterpark in the year 1872, and published in the Field, were : 



Height, 36 feet. 



Circumference of branches, 212 feet 



Greatest spread of branches from N. to S., 63 feet 4 inches. 



Do. do. E. to W., 72 feet. 



Girth of stem at the ground, 23 feet 6 inches. 



Do. at 7 feet from the ground, 24 feet. 

 Smallest girth of stem, 20 feet. 

 Length of stem, 7 feet. 



This yew tree is quite hollow all the way up, and about one- 

 third of the stem completely gone, which will account for its 

 girth appearing small. It is perfectly healthy, and has grown in 

 the circumference of its branches, in the last 30 years, from 167 

 to 212 feet. Mr. Cox writes of this tree thus : "Overshadowing 

 the churchyard cross is a most exceptionally fine yew tree of grand 

 dimensions. The girth of the trunk is about 22 feet,- and the 

 spread of the branches measured outside the tips no less than 212 

 feet. The celebrated yew tree of Darley Dale churchyard is 

 eleven feet wider in actual girth, and is doubtless far older, but in 



